Straight from the Horses Mouth

I'm looking at the atlas, and trying to figure out what road(s) you are referring to. Could you briefly explain?

P.S. I am posting this via the Maralinga Wi-Fi! It is in large part due to your accounts of this place that I am here now. :)

Would there be a fee involved if wanting to travel in this region.

Geez I hope you are right Stephen. The APY lands have some spectacular landscape and sights.

The Musgrave and Mann Ranges are spectacular. The area is begging for Tourism support and money.

I was lucky enough to get a permit when I went there about 3 years ago. The local cop asked to see my permit and could not believe I had a legit permit. He said that my group wast the first legitimate tourist group he had seen since he had been working there - about 3 years.

Mind you it took nearly a year to get the permit, with a lot of work and research, and even then we got it just 1 week before leaving for our trip and it was Plan B a month before leaving home. I recall you gave me a few tips on how to get it. Tip Number 1 was allow a long time, and have perseverance.

The Policeman also said that there was so much family trouble there that the council didn't want tourists, and tourists would always be discouraged until the situation was fixed. Sadly 1 year later the Nurse Gayle Woodford from Fregon was murdered.

I hope some good has come from that and the communities have taken steps to change things. Maybe that is a catalyst for the area opening up.

I won't be holding my breath, but I'll be one of the first back there if it gets easier to get permits.

I too have been to some remote aboriginal country..
Lucky for me it was for work and got paid to do it.... he he he.
I honestly prefer the untouched country where tourism isnt even started yet.
You might see the thousands of dead cars lying around and more than a few dogs running about. .
But this is the real , raw australia i want to see.
Sooo special to have soo little white man come in and commercialize it and end up ruining the real experience of what it should be.
Simple supermarket and somewhere to get fuel.
And cop shop , and just a mechanic shop in a real emergency to use is all you really need.
And they both had it.

I am so glad we also got the change to travel through there many years ago.

In the interval, if you want to see the WA section, from Wingellina, past the spectacular Blackstone Ranges, to Warburton, apply for a permit to Surveyor-Generals Corner when traversing the Great Central Road. It’s a much better drive than Warburton to Warakurna (Giles). A bit further, granted, but who’s in a hurry out there!