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Submitted: Thursday, Jan 24, 2002 at 00:00

andy cox

Need up to date info on the Plenty & Donohue highways for an upcoming (March) trip from Pt. Hedland to Birdsville.
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AnswerID: 1831   Submitted: Thursday, Jan 24, 2002 at 00:00

Gordon replied:

Hi Andy,
Don't give it a second thought, I have travelled it plenty of times,vans even travel it.
The only trouble may be if you travel it just before it is graded,but then it is not all that bad,few patches,nothing to worry about,just take it steady.
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FollowupID: 624   Submitted: Friday, Jan 25, 2002 at 00:00

Andy Cox posted:

Thanks to Gordan and Mark. Can you give me an idea of expected time required to travel from Alice to Birdsville along the plenty. Have to be in Birdsville on 12/03 and don't want to miss it.
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AnswerID: 1834   Submitted: Friday, Jan 25, 2002 at 00:00

MARK ,SYDNEY replied:

Gordon is right,you will travel on worse roads than these comming from Port Headland.I've just come back from a trip across the Plenty it was a very good surface but deteriorates quickly after rain. the donohue is a better track with roadwork being done constantly.You will have no trouble at all.
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AnswerID: 1837   Submitted: Friday, Jan 25, 2002 at 00:00

MARK replied:

ANDY, i'VE ACTUALLY DONE ALICE TO BOULIA IN ONE DAY BUT NO WAY EVER AGAIN.SPEND SOME TIME ON THE PLENTY IT IS A GREAT ROUTE. STAY HALF WAY AT JERVOIS STATION, THEN BOULIA THEN AN EASY RUN IN TO BIRDSVILLE.TAKE IT ALL IN ,I LOVE THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
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AnswerID: 1851   Submitted: Monday, Jan 28, 2002 at 00:00

alex replied:

contact Yollie at wirrilyerna@hotmail.com for station stay at Bouilia, we stayed 2nights last aug and had a wonderful time, we drove boulia to alice in a day via the plenty and donahue with no problems, average speed 80kph in a patrol, we found the donahue to be in better cond than the plenty
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