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15th August 2017, 10:07 PM
#71
Adventurist
Originally Posted by
Cuppa
Arrived at Windorah today - well almost. Just set up camp on Cooper's Creek not to far from the road bridge & 12kms east of town. Nice spot.
Anyone have an recommendations for things to see/do whilst here? We'll be here a few days with two lots of friends arriving to join us tomorrow.
Already the roads & camp spots have plenty of folk travelling to Birdsville for the races in a couple of weeks time. Most are very courteous on the road but we reckon it'll get pretty crazy over the next fortnight. We're hoping to avoid most of it, just haven't quite worked out a travel strategy to do that yet though! Not interested in going to the races, we'll go to Innamincka via Birdsville & Walkers Crossing after the races before heading across to Fraser Island sometime in September.
We might see you in our travels along the way somewhere, we'll be passing through Birdsville heading East sometime around the 4th September after doing the Madigan line. Then we will be on Fraser from the 11th-16th September. Qld school holidays start on the 16th I think, so we will be leaving Fraser as the crowds arrive and heading back home via Alice/West Macs etc.
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16th August 2017, 12:22 PM
#72
Originally Posted by
stevemc181
We might see you in our travels along the way somewhere, we'll be passing through Birdsville heading East sometime around the 4th September after doing the Madigan line. Then we will be on Fraser from the 11th-16th September. Qld school holidays start on the 16th I think, so we will be leaving Fraser as the crowds arrive and heading back home via Alice/West Macs etc.
Fraser will be busy before school holidays as well because a lot of people go there early September to beat the crowd so they just form a big crowd anyway. The week after the holidays is still busy but after that is gets nice and quiet.
At the end of the day, all you have is yourself and all you need is your friends (and in our case our Patrol)
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20th August 2017, 01:23 PM
#73
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26th August 2017, 08:39 PM
#74
Travelling Podologist
2006 4.2TDi ex-Telstra Remote area Camper. 425w roof mounted solar, 360Ah Aux batts, BCDC1240, Onboard hot & cold pressurised & filtered water, (25 litre hot water calorifier), ARB fridge, ARB freezer, Built in kitchen, heaps of easy access storage, 240v, 3” Genie exhaust + dynotune, 2” lift, 3900kg GVM upgrade, second glovebox, ROH Blaktrak steel wheels, Bridgestone D697's (now Toyo RT's), Redarc gauges/pillarpod, Hema HX-1, Icom 450 CB, dual rear view cameras, Onboard 30amp Victron mains charger, second glovebox, dual seat conversion, TPMS, Boss PX7 onboard air with 9 litre tank, 350w inverter, Steel bullbar, Harrop Eaton diff lock (front), Warn winch, Snorkel, Dual spares , 160 litre water tank, 180 litre fuel in two tanks (approx 1200km range) 2010 Tvan Tanami. (incl another 70 litre water tank) with matching wheels/tyres (& 3rd spare)
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26th August 2017, 08:42 PM
#75
Travelling Podologist
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26th August 2017, 08:43 PM
#76
Travelling Podologist
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26th August 2017, 08:45 PM
#77
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Just awesome Cuppa :-)
Your ripper rig truly suits the view for sure mate!
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26th August 2017, 09:10 PM
#78
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Originally Posted by
Cuppa
Thank you so much Cuppa, really great reading :-) Damn those Black Ants you poor bugger :-)
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26th August 2017, 09:54 PM
#79
Patrol Guru
This is bloody awesome to read , half your luck man . We're planning on going to the Kimberly next year when we have our annual 2 mths off out of the bush for the winter , lots of planning & investigating to do before then - have to find out if it's even suitable to go over there at that time of year . Again this blog of yours is grouse reading - keep it coming .
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26th August 2017, 10:00 PM
#80
Legendary
I'm copying his route and studying it for when we finally head off , thanks Cuppa .
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