hello and welcome back in today's episode we leave william creek and head for mouth dare hotel
the mount dare hotel is important to us because mount dear hotel
sits on the western edge of the simpson desert we need to make it there today
all right we're here in the main bar of the william creek hotel we've spent
the night here it's awesome place go get some breakfast then hit the road
what do you think dave yeah we can get on the road soon when you finish your coffee yeah no rush
dave we're uh definitely roughing it here
i think i'll wait to get home and have a proper meal shawn yeah i'm waiting for the simpson
desert till i can eat my muesli bars while we were traveling with the bare necessities
we saw some other people traveling with what i can only guess is a very expensive setup
but good luck to them they look like they were doing it in style
i'm just doing a bit of maintenance seeing how the pre-filters are holding up it's going to be doing
their job well there's some uni filter pre-filters on there i've actually got an extra inlet into
the air box that's what you can see there factory snorkels behind that but um pre-filters are doing
their job catching the dust i think they look good i won't inspect the air filter till we get to
uh mount air and then we'll probably inspect the air filter it needs to be changed i'll change that
um but so far so good so hopefully mount there today thanks for having us william creek hotel
awesome place actually the only place if you're out here yes dave we're ready to go
all set dave yeah well good getting my sunnies all right good a lot better weather today not warmer
yeah yeah makes it a lot more fun yeah let's say so next stop is for lunch i think
okay sounds good all right i'll follow you for a bit all right i'll see you there
oh yeah next stop una data 203ks
there goes dave we're halfway to unidata beautiful day out here in the outback you can see absolutely
nothing around but it's still gorgeous so we've just stopped here in the middle of the track just
to have a break but uh dave's bike's broken the surface we had to fill it in with rocks
so how are you going dave yeah good thanks i think i might have found an opal or something
yeah it's a new uh piece of mining machinery for the mining equipment yeah this is good this
that was an easy run so far i've done i think 100ks already yeah it's fairly good
going today the road's pretty good yeah nice and fast not too dusty today no it's all right
have you noticed your bike stopped doing that snaking yeah why is that i don't know i can't tell
what the difference is in the track condition but it just tracks straight on this and then before
william creek it was really snaking around yeah maybe it's a firmer base so i'm not sure there's
still some loose stuff on the top but yeah the 300 is doing good today there's no headwind which is
which is good uh i have found out that with the luggage sticking out a bit wide i do get
affected by wind a bit more so just even once we get above 100 you notice the wind and then
if there's a headwind yeah you really notice that but apart from that the bike's going great
can't wait to get into the desert and the slower stuff and see where it's really in its element
so these must have been like rims steel wheels yeah hey look how thick they are
it's about an inch extremely heavy and then all the spokes would have gone in there that's the
wheel hub yeah well that's the axle this was a trailer back in the day maybe yeah maybe
a bit cheeky the four wheel drives are on our side of the road
i was in fourth gear that didn't help here's dave
beautiful one of the gan bridges dotted all over this underdata track
how good is this bridge dave um looks pretty good should we find out and
cross it yeah i'll uh get behind and watch you walk a bit further
but oh yeah you'll be fine okay that is a bit of a gap there
okay we're turning right in the data
this is unidata
we're here
the pink roadhouse we've made it
more bikers rolling into town
is it turn off for about there dale halsey springs
amount there 225 k's we can do that dave we can do that for sure yeah maybe even get
in before dark that'd be nice for once yeah let's give it a go okay
just stopped for another little snack afternoon tea you might call it
there's a few little dunes in this area i don't know if you just see them there
mount there straight on
we made it
oh look dave's gonna have a friend
made it dave we made it and um i know we say that every night yeah but what's quite interesting
or amazing is we've been traveling non-stop for six days yeah we've only just got to the start of
the day that's crazy isn't it yeah see how we go over the next few days yeah and the sun's still up
that's true that's a novelty it is let's see if we can do that for the rest of the trip
what's that let's see if we can do that for the rest of the trip all right sounds good
pull into camp with the sun's still up that's the deal all right good work let's go inside
that's it for this episode the next episode will be feature length follow us for all
the drama thrills and spills to see if we can make it unsupported through the simpson desert
do