Sunday, Jan 18, 2015 at 21:03
Yeah Gaz, usually conditions are fine with care.
I would think twice about doing it solo if you haven't driven those soft SE beaches before, they can be treacherous if you go too low or aren't sure how to drive them (both conditions and how to drive your vehicle is such sand, gears, momentum, etc).
From The
Murray Mouth to near
The Granites can be soft at times, but generally nothing that 15 to 8 psi tyre pressures won't handle.
Most people enter at 42 Mile, though Tea Tree Crossing is fine with lower Coorong levels (Salt Creek store is worth a call or drop in to ask about that, they also usually know beach conds), but there is also 32 Mile, 28 Mile, and Wreck Crossing you can enter from to the Coorong.
Entering at
The Granites makes for a vary easy and fairly sure run, the driving from there to
Kingston is almost always like a billiard table to drive, can easily drive quite fast there if you keep a watch for any possible small water washes . . . except I guess during very high tides, when you'd have to stay high, possibly on the softer upper strip of beach.
The Granites is accessed via the old Coorong road (dirt) the turnoff on the right about half a km past the Keith - Cantara Rd
junction.
I like this dirt road as an alt to blacktop.
Alternatively further down the Princes Hwy the southern turnoff is about 2km past the Taratap Rd
junction.
At
Kingston, if Blackford drain is flowing too fast for a crossing, you can exit there on a track just short of that, or if ok to cross there is another main track off the beach to Toops Rd.
You need to do a short stretch of the Princes Hwy again before you hit
Kingston, but driving slow tyres can be left down for that short stretch before getting back on the beach at
Kingston as described above.
Tyres for the Coorong best at 15 or less, 25 or so generally fine from
The Granites the Cape Jaffa.
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