Carnarvon National Park

Hi Lynn,

I stayed at Takarakka last year over Easter. It is a great place. Take advantage of the night time ranger lectures and slide shows if they are still running. Allow yourself a minimum of 2 days to explore the gorge area. I can't comment on the Mt Moffat / Salvator Rosa areas however.

Dave

Hi Lynn, Just spent the 5 days prior to easter at Takarakka and the facilities are quite good they have an excellent camp kitchen, the shop there has a resonable supply of food items if you run out of , the bread is frozen and not cheap.
Carnarvon is very dry at the moment but the walks are excellent if you have the time try and spend at least 4 days there. The weather in August should be dry and fine but cold overnight. Saw one Phoenix off road van into Salvator but the road was fairly rough, I had no worries but I was not towing.

Cheers, Tony

I'm heading that way next month ... so when I return I'll be able to pass on all the good goss

Our neighbours are there now & due home next week so I will ask them for info for you.

Don't forget to take a look at the Macrozamia moorei cycads, some of them would be at least 1000 years old.

The road into Salvador Rosa section can be pretty bad, I used to drive a truck in there many years ago to Cungelella on the Nogoa River and we used to go up into what is now the NP its pretty isolated up there and you would need to be self contained.

If you are into bird watching Lake Nuga Nuga NP is worth a visit, not too sure how much water is in it now as it was getting low last time we were there a couple of years ago. We camped there for a couple of days and saw no one else.

Another good drive is from Bauhinia Downs south to Expedition NP, Glen Horton Stn and south to Taroom with bush camping in the NP.

And if you really want to impress the handbrake you can stay a couple of nights at Planet Downs at about $1500 a night.............

Bruce