Tuesday, Aug 20, 2013 at 16:57
Hi Warrie and very happy to answer all of those.
We chose to go south to north, many go the other way but to be honest we liked the idea of starting in the cold and getting warmer as we went north......so say the dunes are easier the other way....being
Simpson Desert "crossers"...we actually found the dunes a cinch!!......so go which ever way suits your personal needs.
Bucket at 6......yes....BUT there was one further north (thinking it was after 41) where the bucket was off (sitting at the side).....we used our own bucket
We entered the track on 13th July, so about 2 1/2 weeks after those rains...there were some muddy sections in the south but nothing that caused a great concern, the claypans were fine but you could see where people had def had some issues.
I took a Prado 150, there were four of us....a
well set up 100 Series Cruiser, a stock standard (apart from tyres) 200 series cruiser and a current troopy set up with everything you could possibly think of. Not one of us got bogged, got hooked up nor did any recovery gear get used (apart from the high lift jack on the 100 series for a flat tyre on the
Plenty Highway).
We went to EVERY
well bar 4B (could not find it anywhere)....we are are a bunch of "old farts" and for us it was about smelling the roses AND the history....we all had the Gard book and we had a "reading" at every
well.....so for us not all about the track!!
Yes water at Savory Creek,
check out my photo's on the link above....very shallow where we went across BUT lots and lots of water coming through.
Sorry can't specifically remember the Reward Minerals road, but we had no great issues in any part of the trip other than some final comments below
Wildflowers.......AMAZING......and getting even better as we went along, another month and boy oh boy it would be spectacular
Zero damage, zero flat tyres on the CSR (see below for more on that)
As I said above it got warmer, and warmer and warmer as we went north...the days in the south we about 18-23.......in the north 25-34
BUT still pretty cold at night (north and south)......we only went below zero once!!
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