The special projects team at Track Care WA has had a big year for 2007.  Fresh back from a major project up at Georgia Bore on the CSR (see story page 26), the crew were almost straight on out to Neale Junction at the crossroads of the Anne Beadell and Connie Sue Highways in the Great Victoria Desert.

With a big increase in traffic on the Anne Beadell, DEC Kalgoorlie decided to move the ad hoc campsite at the intersection to a spot just 200m to the west.  Eleven Track Care volunteers in six vehicles joined Gary Hearle and his assistant, Vanessa, from DEC to complete the work over a four day period in July and travellers from all directions will now be happy to find a toilet, shelter with water tank, BBQs, tables and an info shelter on their arrival at the junction.

Gary and Vanessa brought most of the gear out from Kalgoorlie, but the shelter for the rainwater tank was uprooted from an old camel tour camp further down the Connie Sue.  Although the toilet is a long drop, it’s not your usual hole in the ground.  Instead, two 44 gallon drums were welded end to end, creating a long casing with holes at the bottom for leaching.  With two of these “tubes” side by side under the dunny, the bowl can be moved over one or the other, doubling the life of the toilet.

This is a great effort by Track Care’s special projects team in conjunction with a very pro-active DEC Kalgoorlie, and travellers are bound to appreciate not having to camp right on the intersection of two highways.