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Thank you we’re happy you enjoyed the video, we went back to Alice and stayed at the Wangardie Caravan Park for a couple of days, because the town was under curfew at the time we just moved on we’ll be back in Alice next year and hopefully get to see more of the town

It's a lovely area ! You will love all the other walks in the ranges they are awesome! . We were there at the beginning of June. We also did the merrinie loop and found it ok . Also didn't feel safe in Hermannsburg n left ! Stay safe 🎉

thanks mate, very happy you enjoyed the vid. Yes the Mereenie was a fairly standard drive. I hope it gets easier plugging tyres, I could put up a lot of the video I shot while doing it because I could work out how to bleep myself out 😀

We actually missed filming it a couple of times but it made it all the way to the top twice. We were having a bit of a laugh trying to working out if we’d lose it or not

Thank you and we are very happy you enjoyed the video. From memory we probably averaged around 60km per hour. On the really rough stuff ( maybe 5-10 continuous kilometres) we were probably closer to 25-30km per hour but over all it’s a very doable drive and yes I have to say the reception we received in Hermannsburg was definitely different 😀

Hi Julie thanks for watching, no our house is rented. We didn’t think we’d ever get the opportunity to get back into the market if we sold so in the two years prior to travel we were able to save 1 wage and live off the other, this allowed us to save hard for the van😀

Thank you mate we definitely want to visit Palm Valley Gorge next year when we do the West Macs. Thanks for watching

Thank you, we’ve made a few changes to our editing gear. Thanks for watching 😀

Hi Michael thanks for watching, I do torque the van wheels, when we brought the van the dealer recommended 144nm so that’s what I’ve always used on the van.

Thank you, Simpsons Gap was beautiful and yes we had the tyre repaired properly at Bob Jane’s when we returned 😀

@@trip42australia knew you guys would be all over it 👌

Thanks for watching and we agree the Mereenie was fine. We are doing the Gibb next year and hopefully get up to Mitchell Falls while we are up in that end of town. They are the two roads I think will be the challenge

@@trip42australia yer the Kalumburu Rd was closed last time we were there (flooding) , and by all accounts would equal what I experienced on the Wolfe Creek Crater Rd, the Gibb on the times I've been on it, hasn't been too much of an issue, like you say Tyre Pressure & Speed are the important things. Have seen people trying to destroy their own gear by not adjusting either.

Hey Mick, mate I’m not sure how often the run the grader over it. It didn’t look like it had been done for quite awhile, I had a look online and some people reckon it hasn’t been done for about 5 years. Yeah I spoke with the bloke on the radio when he pulled over to check it he was ok ( you never know if someone has just broken down) that’s how I found out he didn’t deflate his tyres but he didn’t seem to interested. As you know mate you can only lead a horse to water. 🤓

Out back trucking ?????

it was a fantastic drive, it shook it crap out of us in a few spots but well worth it

Hi Dave thanks for watching mate. I thought the same but the battery lead is supplied with a 60amp circuit breaker that I thought might be in lieu of the fuse. I can check with Bluetti

@@trip42australia Its standard practice to fuse as close as possible to the source.

Thank you im glad you enjoyed the vid🤓

Hey mate thank for watching. At the moment my solar input on the car is hooked up to a lithium battery I put in a couple years ago but I have been making adjustments to the DC voltage input through the app for my Charger 1 which I’m using for a review in about 2 months time. I can say at the moment I’ve been able to increase the DC input quite a lot.

Hi mate we use an Ampfibian 15A -10A adapter. I brought at BCF for about $100-$130 from memory

It attaches to battery not alternator.

@@David_Arteman thanks for that, i was wondering about the alternator amperage size, really, but your reply was great, and thank you for replying. All the best.

hey mate, no it doesn’t you connect it up to your battery. I run several diffent items off the battRey and I have not noticed any difference since installing the Charger 1

@@trip42australia brilliant. Thanks. Have a good one.

Thank you Peter

Thanks for watching, it took my Charger 1 just over 2hrs to recharge the power station from 38% I had the output voltage set at 27V but this can be adjusted up through the BLUETTI App to a maximum of 56v or 560w. I’ll do a review on the Charger 1 in month or so when I’ve had a lot more time to use and as a part of that I’ll recharge the power station from zero using the max output setting and time how long it takes to fully recover. The second part of your question about solar, yes you definitely can you’ll need an MC4 connector cable to plug into the power station, I’m told JayCar sell an MC4 - Anderson plug adapters that are suitable for connecting a panel but I haven’t checked. Hope this helps

@trip42australia Awesome thankyou for that Safe travels. All the best Steve and Deb.

Thanks for watching. I’ve got to say Mick I wondered the very same thing when we were there. I’ve met some people who said they use to swim there as children

Yes - fab video and thanks. My exact question above! There should be an adjustment that can allow faster charging at a much higher wattage depending on your powerstation's input capability. Also, the Ecoflow DC to DC charger allows you to put a charge back into your cranking battery in case of emergency - does the Bluetti allow the same?

The Bluetti App allows output adjustments.

Hi Dean thanks for watching, yes that’s right mate you can crank it up to 56v / 560w output via the BLUETTI app. I’ll do a review in a month or so and demonstrate the difference. Cheers Steve

Hi mate thanks for watching, yes you can definitely wind up the wattage to 560w via the BLUETTI app. I’ll do a review in about a month and demonstrate the difference. As far as putting charge back to the cranking battery I’m not 100% sure but from what I’ve read I don’t think so. The charger 1 is programmed to switch on at 12.5v and start charging at 12.6v, it cuts out at 12v to protect the starting battery. It only draws only draws a charge when the engine is running and shuts itself down a few seconds after the engine is switched off. I’ve had it in the car for about 2 weeks now and I’ve had no problems with the starting battery being drained or losing voltage. I hope I’ve answered your question as I said I’m not the most mechanically mined bloke on earth 😀

Hey mate, no we didn’t. I said to Allison at the time I couldn’t be bothered because the old legs were feeling the pinch but from what I understand we missed one of the best spots. We’ll be back that way again mid next year so we are going to do the rim walk again just to see it.

Hi, we generally stay 3-4 days at most places and normally we travel between 150-200km at a time, sometimes we travel a little further depending on the area that we’re visiting.

You don’t necessarily need Starlink when you’re free camping we use it because Allison has a small bookkeeping business and she needs to be in contact with her clients and I need access to the internet to do the TH-cam stuff. Having said all of that it also allows us continued mobile phone service and I get to watch the footy 🤓

the helicopter flight would have been fantastic

@@trip42australia he wore a bright yellow shirt, we were hoping I could see him, he could see the helicopter but even though we got pretty close the people looked like ants, but yes, the view was incredible. He passed away in 2021 so grateful we got to have lots of adventures

Hey mate we use a CaraFan Sahara it’s mounted in our bathroom and works perfectly

Thank you, all is well I’m 5 weeks post surgery now and we are hoping to be back on the road in about 3 weeks time.

@@trip42australia that is great news hoping your recovery continues to go well and you are back on the road soon

Thank you, we will be back in central Australia next year on our way to WA and we are already thinking about returning as we never went to the Garden of Eden.

Definitely

Thanks mate

Thank you it was truly a beautiful place

It’s definitely worth it, we didn’t have the words to explain its beauty if you get the chance to stay there we would definitely recommend Gintys if you’re into free camping, we spent 3 nights there and it was beautiful

Totally agree, of all 3 walks Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings Canyon this one was definitely our favourite

Thank you we are really happy you’re enjoying the channel. When we first started out we found it hard to get information about travelling other where to catch fish LOL and that’s what gave us the idea for the channel

I know, thank you mate 🤓

Thank you, we were absolutely amazed at the difference between TV and reality

Thank you we are really happy you enjoyed the episode, I have to say I didn’t even realise I was saying it wrong so many times until I started putting the episode together 😀

Thanks for watching, from what we were told. They stopped people climbing the rock for two reasons obviously aboriginal cultural reasons and also the amount of rubbish (💩) etc. That was left on top of the rock by tourist and making its way down into the waterholes. It looked very steep

Thank you mate we’re really happy you enjoyed the episode, we really enjoyed the rock but I must say the walk through Kata Tjuṯa was next level. We’d definitely do both again. It rained about a week before we arrived so there was still a little water running down the rock but we would have loved to have seen it covered in waterfalls

Thank you so much we’ll be around that way in November so we hope it warms up 😀

Thank you and we are really happy you enjoyed the episode. We had no idea how different the geology in the area was particularly between Uluru and Kata Tjuta, amazing 😀

Our pleasure and we are really happy you enjoyed the episode. The entire area is beautiful and definitely something to see but if you never get the opportunity to go we hope we done the area justice for you to enjoy

Thanks so much! 😊 it’s definitely list worthy we are looking forward to returning next year

Thank you, we are really happy you enjoyed the video and yes a must do bucket list location

You’re welcome we’re vey happy you enjoyed the episode

Thanks mate I’ve done a few updates and the sound quality will definitely be improved over the next few episodes