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LIBICKER
1984
for the Australian Brush-tailed bettong,
bristled tail-tailed wallaby, & smaller form in that order.
July 19 - Leave Bourke & head W for Tibooburra.
Lunch in Wanaaring. No rain but roads quite muddy.
Our bus had a delay of ~1 1/2 hrs. and because of
bad clogged radiator, Camp opened at Camp Mt.
Wood in the SE corner of Sturt Natl. Park.
July 20 - Broke camp & drove to jack compass N of
Tibooburra, lunch then at 11:30, left at 13:00.
Skink-belt lizard seen here.
Reached S final Broken Hill. Set up Camp in daylight at
Fowlers Gap Reserve Site (owned & operated by the Univ. of
N.S.W.). When checking camp in Ann Pli: I Moore (Wellington,
NZ) found a fringe-tailed dragon (Amphibolurus).
Stopped briefly in Pachsville before setting to Fowlers Gap.
July 21 - After breakfast we went out to ridge to N
to see Tim Clancy's radiotracking of euros operation.
At 16:30 we left for also campsite near N. edge of bushy.
Hiked several miles in it, lost track, & killed back.
Started raining ~14:45 so we walked back to works.
Returned to Stn. just before 16:00 a little camp in rain;
left ~16:45 & headed for Broken Hill. We had ~60km
of unformed & very slippery road to go. Hopefully it takes
only 3/2 " of rain to make this road impassable.
Camped in Broken Hill - dinner in rain ~ 20:00 - 21:00.
Rain, often hard, all night.
July 22 - Left Broken Hill ~ 08:00. Brief stop at Wilcannia.