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In Australia, even Google maps is trying to kill you, or at least make you brave the wild. That’s exactly what happened when Bruce consulted the popular navigation app for a “shortcut.” He was on his way to meet some buddies and camp for the night when he was alerted to a shortcut that would take him slightly offroad. Slightly offroad in Australia may as well be automobile purgatory. Luckily, Bruce was ready for the wild in his decked out pick-up. I’ll let him tell the story from here”
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“So I have a reasonably heavily upgraded Ford Ranger, and when google maps told me that there’d be a quick, 15min savings while doing off road, I thought “yeah sure, let’s give it a try”. I was meeting mates to go camping for the night.”
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“The road google maps took me down initially… this road hadn’t been traveled for a while D: This is in a pine plantation – hence all the felled trees.”
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“After this area, I realized I might have bitten off more than I could chew due to the fact there was very limited space to turn around…. so I kept going anyway. I had about ~1000km of diesel (~550miles) left, a tent, a CB UHF radio and enough water and beer to survive a night. Cell access is available from the top of some hills.
This is in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia.”
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“About 500m road leading down a mountain…. These drops are each heavily rutted. No problems. But I did realize that after this it could be troublesome going back… so onwards!”
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“More ruts… There was a lot of “controlled” sliding going on, which is where you are literally sliding on the belly of your car, using the steepness to help keep you sliding, without guarantee of wheels touching the ground.”
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“After the sketchyness I ended up in a bit of a rainforest. So took some photos while crossing rivers.”
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“The road turned to more of this which was nice and just a scenic drive.”
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“Allo there. The kangaroos here were pretty laid back and didn’t really care that I was driving up next to them.”
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“The one on the left decided to hop away. After this I made it to my campsite, not 15mins early but 2hrs late… It was worth the adventure anyway.”
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And here is the route Google maps showed him as a “shortcut”. Try that in your ’95 Honda hatchback! Bruce shared his adventure on Twitter where he got some funny, optimistic replies:
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