THE Water Crossing - Somewhere between Crows Nest and Blackbutt in the middle of absolutely nowhere...

The route notes said a river crossing after a very steep (10% gradient) down hill. The first few vehicles skittered across the almost waist deep water and up a muddy slope to freedom... then the rest of the pack followed. The whole esCarpade convoy was brought to a halt... 

There were a lot of blokes with a heap of ideas of how the crossing should be run. While some just took the matter into their own hands... 

Slowly, the cars were instructed to cross - 'stay tight left, just past that boulder, slowly slowly across the causeway, wait at the rock plateau, then hammer it up the slippery mud hill.. you get stuck? One of the 4WDs will pull you out'... Norm the Ambulator again showing leadership skills. 

Look at Norm telling people what to do. Bloody oath he's good at that stuff. 

Ah, didn't quite make it ey FR12? Bummer.

The definition of ambition...

Of course Doc in his beast of a car had no trouble. Sunday drive for him. 

Others, well, they just weren't so lucky...