Route Update - Coorong National Park & Younghusband Peninsula

Neil, where is Port Caroline ???

4x4 Earth had a group through there last weekend from Canunda to 42 Mile Crossing (Coorong).
From all reports, beaches generally pretty good, though the usual ones at Little Dip CP soft (Erringtons / Little Dip beaches).
Some big seaweed patches are very slippery, so watch them.

A big note.
Always plan to drive these beaches at low tide, or really safe with the outgoing tides (more time to get out of something difficult).

Canunda (Carpenter Rocks to Southend) is great for driving, generally similar to Beachport - Robe (Little Dip CP section in there), lots of great dune tracks, as well as beaches.
Geltwood Beach (~5km) can be soft sometimes, but reported it is good driving atm.

You can drive some nice beaches and dune tracks from Pt Mac to Carp Rocks too, but more isolated and you need to do a little route finding.

From Robe to Kingston is generally very easy, some soft stuff to near Boatswains Pt, but usually no probs running 15psi.

Around Wrights to Cape Jaffa, then on to Kingston . . . between Jaffa and Kingston is the best sand, water, for a swim / fish if it's calm / warm.
Watch Kingston, the beach from the Jetty south is usually closed to vehicles, need to get off at one of the south entry / exit points, I usually do so adjacent Johnston Ave.

A bit of blacktop through town and around to get on the beach at end of Toops Rd, or the beach entry track after Blackford Drain as SOMETIMES the drain is flowing too much to cross, should be ok now though.

Kingston to the Granites usually as hard as the blacktop below the high tide mark, so unless doing it at very high tide it's great to drive around 60ks if you like (have personally done it a lot faster :D, but never recommend it to others).

North of the granites is firm for a short while, then it gets moderate to very soft at times, progressively worse all the way further.
There was the big fishing comp there last weekend, and it might have gotten chewed up just a little.
Just watch for any increasingly angled beaches, stay on the high track, never go low unless you have assistance near. Those angled beaches with shell grit can be little a spiders trap \ /in the desert sand mate, so watch them.

You can exit at numerous points, 28 Mile, Wreck, 32 Mile, 42 Mile, or Tea Tree Crossings (which is dry now, so can do it ok).

It's not really worth going past TTX to the mouth now, closed at the end for dredging, so unless you don't mind a bit of a walk t othe mouth, not worth the increasingly angled and sometimes very soft sand.

You can drive Goolwa Beach down to the mouth from the other sdie for a look anyway.
Access down Beach Road Goolwa, air down in the carpark, and a nice drive to the end of the Murray R.

Back a ways . . . Tea Tree is the last exit from the YHP over the Coorong.
You can go to the highway nad north, along the way check out Salt Ck (worth a stop for a shark burger), Jacks Point Pelican observatory, then take Seven Mile Rd and hug the Coorong coast, 11km of Narrung Rd black stuff, then Long Point, Mark Point, and Loveday Bay Rds around to cross on the ferry at Narrung.

Up to the Princes Hwy, turn to cross another ferry at Wellington, then through Langhorne Ck (wine country) to Goolwa.

A good route :)

Hi Neil

You can not drive over the Murray Mouth, even though they have just started dredging it again from lack of flow and starting to silt over.

The only way to Hindmarsh Island is over the bridge at Goolwa.






Cheers


Stephen

On the 250k map you get tricked into thinking you can drive onto Hindmarsh Island from the South. As the others have said, the only way on is over the bridge at Goolwa. It's a long way around via the Wellington ferry. There's a decent free camp at Langhorne Creek.

Still wanting to check on this Port Caroline location.
Nothing comes up in Google search / maps ?