Looks fantastic you guys. Great to hear it was another fantastic trip. I think both Gekko and I won't miss it again!!! Looking forward to next year already. Lets lock in a date now
Great stuff Mark, I better do my part and post some more pics. 1. The best view from inside the F430 2. Scud at VMax in the Ferrari.....man it felt good! 3. Another one from the Ferrari, this time beating the 997TT. 4. Hartge M5 posing at Cannonball Mem. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Final diary notes.... At Kings Canyon some of us checked out the canyon itself which was nice but not as breathtaking as the room rate at the 3 star resort. We visited the bar (surprise, surprise) and immediately doubled the crowd. I hit the sack pretty early (as usual) so I can't tell you much about the night life of KC, but others might have some tales. Sunday morning was an easy run back to the highway and into Yulara. Sails in the Desert was our best accommodation of the weekend. We dropped our bags and headed out to the Olgas for some pics and back to the Rock for some more. After dinner, a few of us headed out of the resort for a couple of kms to view the milky way. The more determined stayers kicked on until the bar closed. I understand the best they could manage was practicing pick up lines on the cleaners. Monday saw us head back to the Alice, with the convoy already starting to split as each of us had different flight times. A great adventure was enjoyed by all. We will go again, but perhaps with a different route next time. Anyone know the best time of year to visit Darwin and Kakadu?
Thanks for the great stories Mark and to all for the great pics. What a great trip. On my way to work yesterday, at 5.45pm, I drove to the main street(the one that heads out of town) and stopped at a stop sign. Well.....kick my teeth out and call me toothless Joe!! I saw the black Sherrin Motorsport truck drive past. I sat there smiling watching it drive by me heading towards Cloncurry, then on its way south, to Brisbane, knowing full well what cars lurked in the back of it and where they have just come from. Knowing that there was over $1 million dollars in cars in the back, nearly overwhelmed me boys. I was going to don my balaclava and holster my 9mm cap gun and chase that truck down and try to hijack the payload!
Just spoke to our truck driver who is making great time, should be in Melbourne around 5pm which means I can get on tonight's ferry back to the deep south instead of wasting another night and day here.
Oh yeah! You should have seen my eyes light up. Then my bottom lip drop as I thought to myself, that I should been there with the boys this year...... All good though, next year will be fun too.
Thats if my Police plant in the Isa doesn't catch you doing illegal activities in the 348 and locks you up...... Steevo has the eyes and ears everywhere..............
Oh dont worry mate. Ive got the cops here on the take. With the sweet candy Q supplies me with, its not hard to have the Police in my back pocket. They leave me alone actually. I have never been pulled over by the Police here, even when I had my "challenge" exhaust on. You could have heard the 348 in Brisvegas!! You probabyl did....... Sounded awesome!
SOoooooo jealous guys! Thanks for the fabulous pics and stories. May I respectfully suggest a drive north from Alice to Katherine Gorge? Fabulous roads and if you thought you had some decent straights around Alice wait till you see these! Not much to see along the way (but you will be awed by the immensity of our fabulous country) but the national park around Katherine is fabulous. Kakadu is a best seen from the air - unless you're a (feathered)birdwatcher or seriously into Aboriginal art, there's not much accessible from the ground. Only viable time would be either the end of the dry (say late Sept) or end of the wet (late April) but you'd need to get lucky in guessing whether the wet was going to be early or late. The buildup (Oct - Dec) is probably just too humid for most, the wet (Jan-Mar/Apr) is a non-starter and the dry (what's left) is too crowded - the grey nomads would drive you nuts (I reckon 3 out of 4 vehicles on the road at that time are caravan combos).
Time for more pics. Here we are at the Cannonball Memorial Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thanks Karen. It sounds like a plan. Did you stop at Mataranka too? On the grey nomads - yes, we saw plenty of them. They didn't worry us too much - picking them off one by one broke up the trip, even if it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Yeah, Mataranka is a nice lunch stop. The guy I was working for in Darwin is a 40year veteran of the Territory and competed in the Cannonball Run (in a porker) so he'd probably have lots of good advice and closer to the time might be able to make a call on the weather. Should I drop him a line?
Thanks Karen, but maybe we should wait to see where others want to go first. I know Neville King wasn't so keen on heading north originally - too boring he said. I don't mind the straight stuff - unless it is speed limited.
could all NT players please read and respond here: http://exoticsintheoutback.com/forum/topic-48.html thanks.
its boring stuff in there (rules and regs etc.), no pics that you're missing out on. Hopefully I'll have part 1 of my pics up tonight.
oooookay let's stick to the pics and *car* stories in this thread or pap and euro will turn it into a chatline.... so anyhoo, just to prove i was there.... and one of many times Finny threatened to throw his 16 megapixel camera at us... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Judging by his farts, yes. But the real king of turds is Finny....takes him half an hour and some expert head sqeezing to shake it...the turd I mean. Ooops, I wasn't going to talk out of school.
