12 March 2010

A couple of months ago I took a friend from Norway on a patrol into an area we do not often get a chance to patrol. It was one of those hot days after a hard rain from the day before. The ground was still fairly hard and the grass had not had time to green up. We packed a lunch, a GPS and a lot of water and took off into the boonies for a look at areas that needed to be looked at once in a while.

The ground is quite rugged and the terrain is not trully the best to be driving in a small Toyota with no one else along to help pull you out of as tight jam - or in this case - a couple of deep water holes.

As my friend had never been in this area before I let him do the driving and I took a few photos to put in this blog. I was a long time doing that because for some reason the memory card did not seem to want to allow me to download the pics. However a computer geek friend came to my rescue yesterday. 

We started out on the easy run across the flat lands.

So, after a short drive we come to this. We have to cross this little canyon or coulee or wadi - take your pick.

We started down the dirt track that was in pretty good shape. Little did we know what we were going to find!

We made it to the bottom with no trouble. We rounded the corner and ........

Well, I had a new guy with me and I was not going to get wet! And we did not have a hope in heck of recovery for a long time if we got stuck - so ........ How deep is it?

My good friend from Norway was a bit over heated from the high temperatures so he gladly volunteered to keep this old guy from getting too wet. His decision was that we could get through the water but not the mud under the water. So, discretion being the better part of valour we turned around to find another way!

Looking back down the hill.