Thread: Northern Territory Trip

Here's a pic or two of the Sheer vastness Pete.

On one day we drove for about 2.5hrs through the bush following an old four wheel drive track that hadn't been driven on for a year or so. Snotted a few donkey's along the way.
Came up to this huge valley (2nd Pic). Just 2 of us, no one knew where we were going as you tend to just invent the days outing as you drive thru the bush.

Stinking hot with just a hint of a breeze, we sat on the edge of the cliff face eating lunch and glassing the valley floor below, it was a site for sore eyes, mobs of donkeys and heaps of pigs taking a nap under trees. I spied some big pigs at 950 yards. We tried to find a 4 wheel drive track that headed down there but couldn't. My offsider wanted to walk down to the bottom via a game trail but I was a little hesitant because of the heat and would have to carry my day pack full of water etc. Anyway he talked me into it, walked down a game trail which only to about 20 mins and straight away game across a bunch of donkeys, I didn't want to shoot them because I really wanted to nail the pigs.





We spotted the pigs from around 250 yds so just crept up to about the 200 yd mark bouncing from tree to tree, it was quite open country down there. The big bugger was onto us straight away and started to take off, I drilled him from 190 yds and he dropped like a sack of spuds, the others took off in all directions, drilled another one then went looking for the donkeys but they were long gone.



We spent a couple of hours down there wandering around just sussing out the valley, bugger me if we came across an old 4 wheel drive track that we followed back up to where we had parked the cruiser. We took the cruiser down there 2 days later but that's another story.