Fuel on the Garry Junction Road under COVID 19 travel restrictions

Tow a trailer and take it with you?
We did get fuel at Telfer once, but that was an exception.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

All fuel supplies are in communities. All communities are off the main track. If the communities are closed I cannot see how you can get fuel (or probably a permit - 2 permits required - 1 from NT & 1 from WA)

Fuel drops on the CSR at well 23 have occurred in the past (not sure about this year) but I have never heard of this on the GJR. Even if you could arrange this, you still have to go through Papunya township which may be closed.

In the unlikely scenario of being able to obtain transit permits whilst communities are closed, and if they allow you to drive through the centre of Papunya without stopping, (2 big ‘ifs) the only other possibility I can think of for fuel might be a pre-arrangement with the people at Telfer mine, but that would still require a fuel range to take you from the last fuel available at Glen Helen to Telfer!

Until such time as you know whether permits will be issued I’d suggest that unfortunately you may be wise to be looking at ‘Plan C’.

your best bet is to call the relevant authorities and get their advice

We live in WA and obviously we have a vested interested in knowing what's going on with access, travel restrictions etc. From where we sit, our observations are that it is unwise to make future plans to travel to somewhere that is currently restricted due to Aboriginal community closures based on COVID. The CSR for example is also closed until further notice and I honestly don't expect that to change anytime soon. No only do the communities need to get the vaccines (twice remember, there's a second dose apparently) they also need confidence that people visiting will be vaccinated before coming AND confidence that this vaccination process does anything towards protecting their community from possible infection from outside visitors. No one knows what effect the vaccines will even have yet. My gut instincts tell me that many of these places won't reopen until international travel is back up and running that that is a long way off - no one can say for certain but its not hard to write off this year as a possibility.