The Pajero Sport Mods Part One

The PS is nearly a year old and I thought it might be good to detail some of mods.
Let’s start with the light bar – I found the high beam to completely useless for long distance travel at night. With the ever present danger of animal strikes a good auxiliary lighting set up was required.
As it turned out, due to the space limitations created by our nudge bar we were limited to pretty much a light bar. It took ages to find a bar that was going to give us not only a decent spread but also some punch down the road and not cost huge amounts of dollars – we ended up choosing a Korr 27 inch XDD600 G3 light bar http://korrlighting.com.au/shop/led-bars-driving-lights/xd-series/xdd600-g3-dual-row-light-bar/  talk about amazing white light and a great spread but it also punches out 1 lux at 600 metres which is what we needed – we have tested it numerous times and reckon we get usable light out to about 725 metres. Bang for buck it is nothing short of brilliant (pardon the pun).
We have just completed a 4,000k trip of which quite a lot of driving was done at night and it made the driving so much easier – highly recommend the Korr light bar, well priced, well made and performs exceptionally well.

WA Day Long Weekend Down South

A quick over night trip down South staying in Busselton was brilliant.
We managed to see quite a lot, from the Chocolate factory, to the Candy Cow and just about all things in between.
Perhaps the most interesting thing was the “accidental” 4WD track we took, “Three Bears”. Looking for something to do before we headed home we Googled 4WD tracks and Three Bears came up as a pretty easy track not far from Dunsborough. Well easy was far from the truth, but after a tough track in and finally getting to the Three Bears Break it was all worth it. Bloody fantastic track and scenery.

The Big Trip–Final Thoughts

All the words like amazing, awesome and brilliant could be used but probably the best would be stunning.

We covered over 4,000 kilometres, visited too many great sites to list and did things we never thought we would see, and do things we never thought we would do.  All in all just a stunning trip.

Kalbarri–The Final Stop

With the big trip nearing an end, Kalbarri was the final stop, and a chance to do some more 4WD, fishing and just relaxing.

Kalbarri is an amazing place with so much to see and do, from the gorges in the national park ,to the cliffs along the Indian Ocean, to safe swimming waters, to great fishing spots – pity we couldn’t catch one dam fish!!

Overall it was an mazing trip and probably one we wont be able to do again simply because of time – nearly three weeks away can really bite into your annual leave etc.

A few final thoughts – I am pleased we had a 4wd as we were able to see and do so many things we wouldn’t have been able to do if we hadn’t had one. I am even happier that we had done a 4WD course and had some genuine 4WD experience before we attempted this trip.

Denham–Peron National Park–Monkey Mia

On the long road home and the first stop is Shark Bay at the Denham Seaside Village. What an amazing area and with a 4WD we got so much more than we had when had last visited.

Monkey Mia was amazing – just to see the dolphins so close up is an experience that everyone should have.

Peron National Park was simply amazing. I had been waiting for a long time to tackle this park as it’s 4WD only and for the novice 4WD’er that I am quite a challenge. If you ever get the chance to get out there just go. It is great. We visited Big Lagoon and Herald Bight and just had fun using our 4WD as it should be used.

The Big Trip–Coral Bay & Exmouth

We left in the early hours of the morning and smashed the trip out in one go. Although it sounds tough it was actually pretty easy with regular stops, good driving lights  and two drivers it’s the way to go. We were touring with the Makinson’s and the two Mitzi’s were superb!

Coral Bay was awesome as always with stunning weather, which actually got a bit too hot late in the afternoons. We managed to do quite a few things this time including, Five Fingers 4WD track , shark nursery – with no sharks, the snorkel drift and the glass bottom boat tour. C-Bay was great.

Exmouth was interesting, as all the beaches in the Cape Range National Park were full of Jelly Fish including the quite painful and sometimes deadly Irukandji jellyfish. The overwhelming vote for best thing on the trip was the Exmouth Public Pool – just bloody fantastic. See some of our pics below or visit our web site for more.

Lancelin Colour Run

Amazing day @ Lano for the colour run.  The pics below don’t do it justice but there was a hell of a lot of colour!

It was nearly a 800m walk/run down the beach and return for what was a memorable family day.