Travelling through the Flinders to Innamincka and Thargomindah

Thanks Mick. We are very familiar with the roads, having been to Innamincka about five or six times. I should have been clearer that it is the current road conditions which I am concerned with.

The current road report shows the little stretch from the main road into Innamincka is not accessible to any vehicle over three tonnes, or towing a trailer.

I am watching the reports and ready to change to Plan B if necessary.

I have always found the staff at the tavern to be quite unhelpful, possibly they are tired of the endless tourists bothering them LOL. And yes, we know that is their reason for being there, and they should recognise that the tourist is important. So I am not surprised at being given wrong information.

The Tavern is NOT the Trading Post.

I cannot imagine the locals out there to be stupid enough to offer any advice like "You'll be fine, go for it". So many fools and dunces will get themselves into trouble, no matter what the conditions. Negative advice from the locals is likely as a protection from law suits from said fools and dunces when thing go wrong.

Those bagging the locals might take a moment to consider the questions from the perspective of those being asked.

Iza

Yes Zippo, the Tavern and the Trading Post are two different bodies; I am aware of the difference.

And Iza, I can only comment on what I have found in the past. And I think I did speculate on why they might be terse at times. But I am of the opinion they should be reminded of the client's needs. The tourists are why they trade.

If the locals have no idea of the current conditions, then it's best they say nothing at all Iza, not look like a fool themself when conditions are nothing like they say they are. I never asked for a road report by the way, she just saw us towing trailers and said there's no way we should consider taking them along that route, after I had mentioned that's where we were going.

Yes, we will report back. The section between Arkaroola and Mt Hopeless goes through some clay sections and likely to be most affected by rain, so I will give feedback especially on that section.

We will be coming in from Cameron corner. Starting to look forward to it now. Enjoy the run.

The section from Mt Hopeless to Arkaroola was very good, with some minor churned up areas and only small patches of corrugations. It was all in very good shape.

We decided to go from the Strzelecki into Cameron's Corner and then up to Noccundra Waterhole. All sections of that stretch were fine, with only minor washouts on the crests of sand dunes. We passed another van and quite a few cars going through.

If I get the computer out with my photos I will put up some of the section down from Mt Hopeless.

Many thanks for following up. Not long now for us. Enjoy.

Here is a couple of quick photos of a typical section of the track