Kalumburu Road

We spent a couple of months at Kalumburu each year from 2005 to 2008.
It is just another outback road with the odd rough spot and the mandatory corrugations.
In 2006 and again in 2008, we towed a boat to Kalumburu without any drama, but that does not make for much of a story does it?
Fantastic country to explore by boat....





Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Hi Peter,
I just checked. We were there in 2004 without a boat. Now with a boat I would like to revisit but no way based on the way it was shown on the show. eg. 1m wash a ways, bog holes, the need to make a bypass track and more than a day to drive from Drysdale Station.
Cheers,

We did the road a few months back, it was not good going in but the graders where working. Coming out I can't remember where they had gotten up to on the way out, it was the first main river crossing out of Kalumburu from memory, average speed upto that point was about 20-30kmh.

I saw that show too.

Did you see the part where the 2 dickheads laughed and joked about the sign at the start of a hike about wearing proper footwear and carrying water ??

Cheers Greg

Back in the early 2000’s, the truckies refused to travel up to Kalumburu owing to the condition of the road, all supplies were brought in by barge. Nowadays the road is graded, but I don’t know how often. They did mention it was early in the season, so most likely the grader hasn’t been up that way yet.

We went to Kalumburu in 2004, the road was pretty bad then, but not as bad as on the show. We were there in June that year, and the trucks had stopped using the road then.

Macca.

Depending on when the show was filmed , we travel the road in August this year 2018 and it was pretty rough in places and signs of huge washouts as well that had been partly repaired.
I did feel sorry for the people who live in that area that they have to travel what is a pretty average sort of a road . While we were there there was a Nissan Patrol with a bent chassis caravan with a broken suspension crossmember and we/others had broken shock absorber and I can tell you we were driving to preserve our equipment as best as we could.
unfortunately missed the show didn't know it was back on. I will have to wait till it comes out on YouTube to see what mischief the boys got up to , much like any of their shows lot of it is played up for the camera and entertainment Factor . But I wouldn't let the road stop you from going to what is a fantastic experience if you don't mind camping and not glamping facilities are of the basic type . Have a look here "places" mcgowan's Island sunset camp for some pictures .

We went up to Kalumburu and Honeymoon Bay in early June this year. 3 vehicles towing including a heavy 20' Bushtracker. Looking at the scrape marks in places on the rocky track surface (more so just before Kalumburu), the grader/s had not long finished doing their thing. Any previous washouts etc had obviously been repaired, especially at the water crossings. Certainly nothing like as shown in the All 4 Adventure video. Apart from being a bit rough, rocky and slow going in a lot of places, we had no problems at all.

Cheers,

Dave

I watched the show and they did say that they were the first ones into Kalumburu for the season. Must get there myself one day,been as far as Drysdale station one year ,got 2 inches of rain so they shut the road to Kalumburu for a while.

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Geez, those blokes are cool.
I ripped the sleeves off my shirt and Roz said "your'e not going to get bloody tats too, are ya? lol

My wife and I were working on Theda Station when they went past. I used to have a bit of time for these guys but after seeing them travelling up a CLOSED road towing their boat I realized that they are in fact a couple of DICKHEADS with a camera crew. Its a pity that the shire and the police up there didn't address the issue at the time. I no longer watch their show.