Coops & I decided to take the Ex-Mil out for a run along Duck Creek Road at Beaudesert (inland from the Gold Coast).
Our first stop was at Canungra to get petrol. After pulling out from the servo we saw another ex-mil landie, so stopped to chat to the driver. What is it with land rover owners? They are like remoras.....they cling on and you can't get away
Took a photo of his vehicle.
On to Beaudesert, watching the water temp guage all the way as it fluctuated up and down. Stopped at Macca's for coffee and cake and checked the coolant level only to find it a tad low, so ran across the road to AutoOne and bought 10 litres of coolant just in case!!
Onto Kerry Rd (which funnily enough goes to Kerry) and took pics of the scenery.........
Onto DucK Creek Rd, a 4WD dry weather only track, as very steep uphill in places, as it climbs and climbs and climbs ad infinitum.
Stopped halfway up for lunch. Two lobster thermidores and a magnum of champers, tasted just like a cheese sandwich and a coke
Bloody over-rated!!
And so up and up....some great lookouts on the way
At the top was Luke O'Reilly's Farm and O'Reilly's Resort, but there are people there, that come up via the easy bitumen road (wimps), so we didn't stop there (didn't go anywhere near it!!). At the top we did a U-turn and came back the same way.
Duck Creek Rd is about 10k long and takes about an hour each way (at grandpa Coops speed
). It isn't anything extreme but very steep up and down on the way back which means you can't do it too fast anyway. Coops drove up the road and I drove back...I had gravity on my side but it didn't make it any faster!! and Coops opening the passenger door and sticking his boot on the road didn't help
)He said he was scared....the big jessie!!
Spot the land rover
