The Anne Beadell Highway

The title is a misnomer if ever there was.  It is definitely not a highway.
The road to Emu was really bad. And it only got worse from there on.
There is a great video on you tube where a fellow only did 50 km on the Anne Beadell, and he turned around and went home. The trouble is corrugations that shake the vehicle so much, that everything that can rattle does, including your teeth. And this goes on day after day.
Last time I only got as far as Emu before having to turn around due to my battery shaking loose.
Emu is the famous desert atomic bomb site that Len Beadell prepared for the Brits to test their atomic bombs. It is so remote, that they decided no one could possibly affected by the radiation. Unfortunately I don’t think they took too much notice of the local aborigines.
There are two commemorative stone plinths about a metre high wth carved warnings about not hanging around for too long because of very high radiation levels. Their names are Totem 1, and Totem 2.
Also at the site we lined our 5 vehicles up on the massive aeroplane runway for a classic off-road photo.
Next day it was heading west in a more or less straight line for 7 days.
First port of call was the one and only fuel stop at Kilkurkla. I thing the fellow there only fills up about 20 cars a week, and that’s in the busy season.
I created a bit of a holdup when I ran out of fuel. This was because my fuel consumption had increased dramatically because of the corrugations and soft sand. And because my fuel gauge was faulty.
Luckily I had plenty of fuel in the large 200 litre tank, and I was able to siphon from the tank to the fuel filler. .
For a moment though, when the Hilux just died, I was thinking the worst.
Not long after that, the big 200 Landcruiser towing the camper trailer also started running low, and I ended parking next to him and siphoning fuel into his filler. There is so little traffic, that we just blocked the road with no problems. In fact in the seven days we only met 2 vehicles.
Minor problems appeared on most of the vehicles. The most worrying is cracked fuel tank in the Colorado and as I write this he has driven 300km to try and get it it fixed.
We will stay in Laverton for a few days to rest and recuperate.