the canning stock route

Hi Les,
I never in a million years thought of the sun being an issue thank you for the heads up on the sun

The sun issue would likely be more of a worry in the general peak winter months, we did Cocklebiddy to Well 33 following all the northward “highways” (Connie Sue, David Carnegie, Gary) in June, and the sun was very noticeable.

April might be hit and miss with weather, you’ll just have to wait and see what the season brings.
We had planned to drive 33 south to Georgia Bore as part of our route, but even in June it was wet in there and the CSR was closed through Well 26.

Good morning DingoBlue,
thank you very much for your input, our initail planning meeting is scheduled for two weeks time when we start planning the nitty gritty of the trip, and my thoughts, at this stage are three weeks, for travel and sight seeing and a couple of non driving days , just to check things over and tighten everything up again, but we shall see what every one else wants to do.

Good morning Mike ,
thank you for your input, my personal thoughts are for three weeks on the track including a couple of lay over days to check the vehicle over thoroughly tighten everything up again, and give the body a respite from corrugation wobble. it looks like the consensus is for north south travel.
thank you.

Hi Greg,
thank you, we are on limited time as I have to be back in Perth to go to Canada in July,lol being retired, I am not watching a clock anymore, and your comments on the corrugations are very well noted, stay tune for more enquiries as our initial planning meeting is in a couple of weeks and I shall be asking more questions, believe me I like other peoples input.
thank you.

I am looking at leaving as early as possible with the regard to weather, having lived in the Kimberley for several years I think I have, only think mind you, an understanding of the weather conditions up that way the same with the mid west and Pilbara areas. but as the seasons seem to keep changing and weather patterns are getting more erratic, as time goes by as my travel companions have said, departure still depends on the weather and information we glean from local people living in the areas and the authorities that control road closures. At the moment our pencil date is early to mid April .
what would put a real kybosh on the whole trip would be a really late cyclone hitting Derby in Late March, then I think Ill stay home, toooo much water. lol

Wildmax,
thank you for the heads up and after doing a lot of research it has become very apparent that daily mechanical checks are going to be mandatory on all vehicles not just mine, as for spinifex one of our party is a smoker so we shall be stopping every hour for the obligatory smoke break, lol, and also to let the shockies cool down, and check for the build up around the hot parts and radiators.
this will be my first time on the stock route but two of our vehicles have been down it before so I am just finding out. It is amazing what we learnt at the gathering for initial planning meeting, and I and my thoughts were not to far off the mark, and wildmax your comment is right on the mark thank you.

June / July we did parallel routes to Canning (Connie Sue, David Carnegie, Gary Hwys) and the Spinifex was bad.
Daily mech checks yes, but try every 2 - 3 hours hooking out built up “mowing” from around cross members, transfer case, exhaust, spare wheel, etc.

Take a variety of lengths of stiff wire with hooks bent, also some nimble but protective gloves to pull out clumps.

A 5lt garden pressure sprayer is a good precaution in the event smoking spinifex is noticed, good reach and on most open adjustment on nozzle, had a good soaking action.
I got one from Bunnings for a pretty good price.