Canning Stock Route - Firewood

Hi Mark,

We travelled part of the CSR (Well 33 to 5) north to south two years ago and were able to find fire wood ok. Sometimes we needed to get away from our chosen camp area a little but really no problem.

Hope you enjoy it, we had a great time.

Rgds,

Rob.

There is plenty of good wood, you don't need much as it burns very hot.
A lot of people can't see the wood for the trees, so to speak, as they are used to the huge amounts of timber & massive fires that they have in the High Country.

Thanks guys, yep understand you have to move further than 10 metres to find wood so pleased to hear plenty available.

And yes I agree with the size of the fires, they don't need to be massive at all.

Appreciate your quick replies

Don't even think of burning wood from the old collapsed wells.

Very little wood left nowadays.
You will have to hunt for it, and 5kms plus in most cases.

Better off taking yr own and economising with a small fire and wear warm clothing.

We found plenty along the way - started collecting as soon as left camp in the morning and never had a problem. We would often have thermos made and have a combined morning tea/firewood stop. Very civilised.

The more desirable, iconic locations are a different kettle of fish though. Nothing around those localities.

Greatly appreciate all the information. We are fairly experienced 4WDers (four vehicles in total) mostly retired (although sadly not me as yet) and are fairly "green" in nature and understand very much the history of the CSR (we are all reading the Gard book at present) so you can be assured we will not in any way touch wood from the wells.

Having travelled a fair bit I am in tune with the "look for wood early in the day" deal and can understand 100% that wood in around the major areas will be hard to get.

We all have rubbish bags on the rear tyres and understand fully that we need to leave this pristine environment exactly that way, pristine!!

Cheers everyone, a great help!!

I think there has been some good advice there on fire wood. Had a friend do the trip last year and he had no trouble, but started to collect it during the day, so the real question is to find a way to carry it on your vehicle.

Might catch you on the way. We are hitting the CSR around the same time in July from the top.