Outback Way

Hi Mike

Do a quick search on the forum for "Great Central Road" there is a wealth of content and contacts. Also try the link below - has contact info and other useful stuff.

http://www.outbackway.org.au/

Cheers

Chris

You can get coordinates for campsites by purchasing Camps Australia Wide, getting the Wikicamps smart phone app, or more importantly go to Treks and Places on this, EO, site.

Also check out this other forum report on the Plenty Plenty Highway Condition

Hi Mike,
well it just so happens that my Brother in law an I have just completed that trip only we didn't go to Townsville we wound up in Gympie for our mother in laws 80th birthday, you are going to just love that Country to bits. The GSR is not to bad when we went through about 5 weeks ago, the graders were out and the corrugation's weren't too bad, there appears to be a lot of camping spots along the way and out on the plenty and Donahue highways you will find plenty of spots to stop for the night, but what we found if we stopped for the night we didn't want to get going in the morning as there is a hell of a lot to see and experience. In all the roads were pretty good, and camp spots were not an issue. Sometimes you can camp by water and other times you may not, but if you have maps that show water courses, and the road crosses the water courses, you can pretty much ascertain where you are going to camp for the night, when you are on the road and you see people stopped along the road and they are going in the opposite direction to you ask them where they camped the previous evening. I am sorry I can't help with co-ordinates for you, as we didn't use them, and your rig should do the trip quite easily. I hope my two bobs worth is of some help to you. p.s you can check out my eotrack me track. I will be doing a blog in the future

January on the Great Central Road is likely to be HOT and I imagine the Plenty Highway would be too.

Motherhen

Just finished the trip from Perth to the Alice, see my blog. Road was in great condition and the grader was working on the worst part after the NT boarder
Bully,s great Central road and beyond adventure

Thanks for all your feedback.
You've provided me with some interesting threads to follow and I will also take your other points into consideration.
Regards
Mike.