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Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:52 pm
by Peaceand
This is Holly, a 1972 Carawagon Continental Ultimate, pictured below being chased through the desert by a Dormobile :)
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:57 pm
by RMS
Notice how the Carawagon is in front, and the Dormobile is eating dust
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:56 pm
by Peaceand
Let's not mention which vehicle the photograph was taken from then...
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 8:58 pm
by Eddi
Great pic !
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 8:22 am
by Ian
I can do desert!
May last year in the Mojave desert near Llanfair. It was a tad warm if I recall. Talk about a quiet night's sleep.
Cheers,
Ian
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:46 am
by RMS
One of the problems with deserts are sandstorms!
Here we are in Morocco, 2011, just regrouping after becoming separated in a sandstorm.
Visibility was down to just a couple of yards at its worst - two of our group got stuck in soft sand when they stopped and disappeared - the tracks made by our tyres were disappearing within seconds so no chance of anyone following finding our tracks.
Luckily we had a guide with us who wrapped his black Tuareg around his head and face, and set of like a ninja into the sandstorm, appearing 15 minutes later with the stragglers. How he found them we don't know, but we all regrouped in the shelter of a small dune and settled down for the night.
Here we are the next morning, just a couple of hundred metres from the big dunes we had been heading for, but couldn't see!
And a couple of hours later in front of the dune:
Cheers,
Robin.
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:48 am
by Ian
Now that is a really great picture!
Ian
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 7:31 am
by RMS
Yes, but that first picture was probably a mistake as the camera autofocus stopped working after that
I managed to get the camera working by continually moving the lens, but it's never focussed right since then
The airborne 'sand' is very fine - almost like talcum powder, so got in everywhere - we're still finding 'sand' in the vehicles!
Cheers,
Robin.
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:16 pm
by overlander
Just a quick 'aside' as the subject has been brought up
Luckily we had a guide with us who wrapped his black Tuareg (sic 'cheche') around his head and face, and set of like a ninja into the sandstorm, appearing 15 minutes later with the stragglers. How he found them we don't know, but we all regrouped in the shelter of a small dune and settled down for the night.
Absolutely - he was a useful man to have around when the unexpected happened - rain in the desert- regardless of whether or not it is 'legal' to have a guide when travelling in the Moroccan Sahara with 4 or more vehicles (you might get two different answers if you asked a solo desert traveller and the Moroccan Tourist Office)!
These pictures only make me want to go back and do it all again - June or October could be a possibility
- anybody want to tag-along?
Robin, hope you have made a full recovery from that recent self-inflicted blow to the forehead.
John H
overland junkie
Re: Just to start things off - Holly the Carawagon
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:34 am
by RMS
As you know John, we were planning another trip this year, but due to illnesses it looks like it might be put off
I couldn't do June or October anyway, due to family commitments.
What are you planning to drive - the 504 or are you borrowing a Disco?
overlander wrote:
Robin, hope you have made a full recovery from that recent self-inflicted blow to the forehead.
Which one was that? There have been so many
Cheers,
Robin.