Bungabiddy campsite… #roundaustraliawithspelio

Night 70 on 19th June 2011

There is insufficient detail on the Flickr map to locate it.. see the GDT Hema maps if you have the time. You certainly will need some time to get to this spot!
Search on Flickr map for Ngaanyatjarra-Giles to locate approx area!

This shot has 62 views, while the one with the story about this nice spot has 7 views. Don't people ever check out the images next door? I often find this! Interesting....

See the shot to the left for the notes about Öffbeat Australia".

@ 24° 46' 06" 128° 46' 38" on the NatMap Raster Map as Malagura Rockhole, but Bungabiddy on the Hema GDT maps p.201

See my updated comments on LandCruisers4eva at
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I didn't have a GPS waypoint for this, so at home now, I just located Mt Ant on my Galileo App (which showed co-ords), and moved N to near the unmarked Pangkupirri RH to get the approx position of Bungabiddy, on the vector map, as the App showed no rockholes.

I emailed the position from Galileo to myself, and opened the email and the KML file in Google Earth, It was way out, so I scrolled N on Google Earth to an image that looked like your Sat view on the Flickr maps, and there it is in glorious 3D.

It seems to correspond to your Flickr map location Sat image, but.. Google Earth shows the Longitude as 24d 39' 24" 128deg 45' 5" for the campsite valley.

The Flickr sat image needs to be zoomed in to the max to see the camp area and track, but then it puts your photo location N of the creek and W of the grass area. The Flickr Sat image changes between Sat acquisition images, not like Google Earth's smooth zoom in..

Did you have a GPS on your camera or use a Garmin or something to fix this photo?

My Memory Map App shows the Bungabiddy RH as Pangkupirri Rockhole in the Walter James Range, this is where the Great Desert Tracks Hema maps place it!

Len Beadell mentions on p189 in "Beating About the Bush", that they, "after clearing Bungabiddy and the Walter James Range, we camped again on our old area by Rebecca Creek, right between the two main range systems", which could put him between Anne Range and Bloods Range at Malagura Rockhole...

Now I have panned Galileo to closer to the co-ords visible at the cursor in Memory Map, zoomed in, or it did as I panned, and the track into the rockhole showed up!

I adjusted the cross-hairs as well as I could in Galileo then sent the KML file to the iPad again, which when opened in Google Earth, zoomed to the grassy campsite..
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This is at the Eastern end of Anne Range. Len camped here at the end of his trek down the Sandy Blight Junction Road, at the end of 800km, "the longest towing operation ever in the history of Central Australia".

This creek flows into the Rebecca Creek where Len, Scotty and Quinny found a water soak near their old camp. See p 189 in "Beating about the Bush"

Next, further north, night we had a bush camp off road at 24d 10' 22.5" 128d 35' 15'5"

Giles Met station..
www.bom.gov.au/sa/giles/

To Quote Daisy Bates... ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bates/daisy/passing/chapter11.html

A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite-to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains.

My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland.

I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room.

see our visit to her memorial... www.flickr.com/photos/spelio/4082534500/in/photostream/

The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.

At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]

see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Blight_Junction_Road

The Sandy Blight Junction Road is considered to be one of the most picturesque tracks in outback Australia, and was Beadell's favourite.[4] Its present-day southern terminus is 27 km (17 mi) west of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and 77 km (48 mi) east of Warakurna Community (Giles).[1] The original start point has been bypassed by more recent construction of the Great Central Road. Beadell placed eleven signposts and one large rock (200 mile mark) at significant points along the road. Most of the signs have since been replaced with replicas, as many original plates have been taken as souvenirs.

At Bungabiddy rockhole (of which there were two pools) he was unable to touch the bottom when in the water, so he presumed that it was deep enough to be permanent water.[2] Beadell may have thought he was the first European to sight this feature, but a notorious dingo bounty hunter named Paddy de Conlay had carved his name and the date "1936" on a rock nearby.[3]

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