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Australia - 2005-06-10 - 02 - The Kimberly - Pentecost River Crossing
The pictures don't really do this one justice, watch the video to get
a feel for this. The videos were taken while crossing the river, the other
pictures are taken looking back. This was a true river crossing. We had
been going through water, but nothing like this. One mistake while driving
& the truck would have been in trouble. I decided to attach the river
crossing in second gear which worked well. The nice thing was that I had
got practice with some other small crossings along the way & learned second
was the best gear to take them at. You can go too fast because you have
no control & the water will get everywhere. You can't go too slow or you
might get stuck. What you are driving across is all rocks of different
size. It was exciting to do this crossing. The crossing reminds me of
when I used to mudbog, which was a driving competition with a straight
course & you would drive to see who could get the farthest. The reason
it reminds me of that is that you sit at the start trying to get a line
to take & getting your gears figured out & this was a slightly longer
distance than the mud bog pits. It actually ended up going really smoothly,
which is good because the last thing I needed was another vehicle issue.
Crossing like this are another reason I call the Kimberly the most extreme
place in Australia.
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