Day 6 - UCP to 25kms south of Vokes Corner 17-8-2014
A day when the hard man came out to play and we made it to the top of Vokes Hill.
Old mate Bill Vokes or sometimes spelt and more correct Voakes, was a cook and general hand on several expeditions led by Richard T Maurice into this area around 1900. Muarice's expeditions were quite serious and much of his anthropological work on the indigenous tribes of the areas of the Great Victoria Desert and beyond is still relied upon today as he was the first to see many of these people. Local newspapers however sometimes described his expeditions as 'pleasure trips'. Voakes is quoted as sneering at this term and saying that "a man who wants to travel this country for pleasure will go to hell for a pastime".
The Great Victoria Desert which we were travelling across and found to be very beautiful, was also considered differently by the exploers of past years. Ernest Giles, the first man to cross this desert, considered it to be probably "the sors desert on the face of the earth'. Then again, he didn't have motorbikes, cars, electricity or gas for starters.
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A day when the hard man came out to play and we made it to the top of Vokes Hill.
Old mate Bill Vokes or sometimes spelt and more correct Voakes, was a cook and general hand on several expeditions led by Richard T Maurice into this area around 1900. Muarice's expeditions were quite serious and much of his anthropological work on the indigenous tribes of the areas of the Great Victoria Desert and beyond is still relied upon today as he was the first to see many of these people. Local newspapers however sometimes described his expeditions as 'pleasure trips'. Voakes is quoted as sneering at this term and saying that "a man who wants to travel this country for pleasure will go to hell for a pastime".
The Great Victoria Desert which we were travelling across and found to be very beautiful, was also considered differently by the exploers of past years. Ernest Giles, the first man to cross this desert, considered it to be probably "the sors desert on the face of the earth'. Then again, he didn't have motorbikes, cars, electricity or gas for starters.
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