To Well 33, Kunawarritji July 8 2025
 
  The dunes have become short, and tangled. The long longitudinal dunes we've been through so far have faded.

The track meanders around them more often than over.

     
  Difficult to know which are swales and which are broad dunes.
     
  Some patches of desert oaks have more mature trees than young. Others the other way round.
     
  Another of those grevilleas.

Next to Well 35, Kinyu.

We looked for Bungabinni Native Well but failed to find it. There were lots of vehicle tracks and campsites. We think we were within 20m of the well.

     
  Kinyu is well hidden among the bushes.

Its labelled Minju Well on our map.

     
  Converted to a bore.
     
  With instructions.
     
  From here to Kunawarritji we are on a plain. The dunes behind us.

The track heavily corrugated.

When we travelled east to west on the Gary Junction (Kiwirrkurra) Road we dropped down into a wide valley to where the Canning Stock Route crossed north to south. Then up a small rise to Kunawarritji Community.

The differences in height aren't sufficient to show as contours. It feels to us as if the stock route follows the same, very long, valley.

     
  Occasionally a choice between old and new tracks.

But which is which - we hope the track with vegetation in the middle is the new one.

     
  Someone has dug at an angle to find water.
     
  At well 34, Nyipily.
     
  The corrugations grow deeper, and harsher.

There is no escape.

     
  But eventually the windmill at Well 33, Kunawarritji, comes into sight.
     
  The windmill currently in need of some maintenance.

Water is available at the Kunawarritji Community.

     
  Old railway line used as posts. 132lb rail from Australian Iron and Steel, rolled in July 1967. Probably found the way here from the iron ore rail lines to Port Hedland.
     
  The windmill is a modern addition. It looks like there were yards around the well. The posts now confine the campsite.

We are here. A couple more km to the Kiwirrkurra Road where we joined the stock route southwards last year.

The northern part through the Great Sandy Desert, very different to the southern part, through the Little Sandy Desert. Both enjoyable. In all 2,000km of desert track.

From here we will turn west, past Punmu, and enter Karlamilyi National Park from the north.

     
Lake Auld July 9 - 10 2025
     
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