Monday, Jul 21, 2014 at 15:44
Apart from the fact that we did the GRR west to east I think Gary has pretty
well said what I would have, especially the bit about tyre pressures and slowing down. We did the trip from the beginning of May and finished at
Kununurra about 3 and a bit weeks later. We saw a lot more people towing vans than I would have expected and not all of them what I would call off road or rough road models. Actually I don't agree with the term Off Road unless you have the resources of a mob like the Gall crew.
Having said all that, we left our van at a CP in
Derby and then went back along the bitumen to collect it to carry on. We had to be in
Derby by a certain date because we booked a seaplane flight to the Horizontal Falls, which I would thoroughly recommend.
No way I would have considered dragging our on road van along there knowing the conditions can vary section to section depending on when the graders have been through. Not sure but as you are planning on doing it later in the season the graders may not be all that active. You can
check the road conditions by calling the various stations along the way before you go. The GRR is maintained with funding from Main Roads WA but a lot of there info I found to be a little out of date. Roads off the GRR are maintained by the various stations and by the two shires at either end.
We actually did the trip with our Landcruiser ute with slide on camper. Even that early in the season the Pentecost crossing water level only came up to just below wheel diameter and was very easy.
Hope that helps a bit
Cheers
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