Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 18:50
Yes BooBook,
There is a track, and it's in pretty good nic. An easy drive, quiet and thus classified by me as remote.
If you have permits, head north through Warakurna community, through the Pass of the Abecarrages, hook west along the northern flank of the Rawlinsons, passing to the north of
Gorge of Tarns, Fort McKellar & Circus Water. Circus Water has been described as 'probably the best water in the whole of the Rawlinsons'.
Note that there is currently some dispute about the location of the 'Circus' water feature - the topo maps have, at the western end of teh ranges, a Circus
Rockhole, and further east, Circus Water. My own co-ords are Latitude: 24° 45’ 22” Longitude: 127° 45’ 10”. This is not the position on the current Rawlinson top map. It is highly likely that place this is the T/O's 'Tutjurangara'.
The track then rounds the western edge of the Rawlinsons, whence you can pick up the Old Gunbarrel, or go on further west past
Lake Christopher and eventually south, on to Jackie Jackie
Junction and down to
Warburton. Some lovely scenery through the
Gibson Desert sandhills & desert oaks.
This is all of course hot on the heels of Giles - which I alluded to in an earlier reply. Its of interest, IMHO, that near to Circus Water, in 1932 Michael Terry found a cabbage gum blazed by Lasseter.
All fascinatin' stuff in my view!
The relevant topo map "Rawlinson, 1:250,000, printed 2001, Datum: Map
Grid of Australia 1994" does not have enough detail, unfortunately, but on Google Earth you can see the tracks.
Cheers
RM
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