4WD in Wilbinga

Ja, Ineke en Luus: het is inderdaad stil rondom de Blessies... Geen bijzondere reden voor hoor. Gewoon het dagelijkse leven dat lekker doorgaat. De dagen schieten voorbij.... :-)

Oh en Lucia, of course we did not trade Ellen's car in.. That is our work horse

Ok, a few weeks ago we have been invited by XPditer Wilco to go along on a little 4WD trip. We have been asking around a couple of times for opportunities to come along on one of these trips. Wilco actually organized one more or less especially for us, let's call it a introduction to 4WD trip. The location we went to was Wilbinga, an area just north of Perth (about the height of Yanchep Park), and then adjacent to the ocean. This means that you can get to a few very nice 'remote' beaches that you will not be able to reach with a regular car... Of course we were not alone, Frank and Menno (with their respective cars) joined as well, because any smart 4WD-er will never go out on his/her own!!.

To get there took about an hour from Wilco's place (probably it would take us an hour and a hal to get to the entrance road. The entrance road by itself is just a gravle road, not too bad just a bit bumpy. After about 15 minutes drive we were at the end of the entrance road and about to get on the soft sand roads. This means the tyre pressure has to be decreased (from 40 to 20 psi). That way the tyres are reasonably soft and will be giving beter grip on the sand roads.

This is of course a matter of simply pressing the tyre-valves untill the right pressure level has been reached. Then we were ready to get on the sand roads:

And no it what not all just flat sandy tracks:

The final destination (although of course it is not so much about the destination as it is about the road there :-))... Can you spot Ellen?:


After this trip when we were driving home we agreed that it was a very exciting activity. Would we not have 2 cars already, we may have been tempted to look for an (older) 4WD car ... (un?)fortunately we have the two so that is something for later..
Feel free to have a good look around at some more photos here.