East Pilbara Diversion

Not been on Shay Gap to Marble Bar for a while but remember it as pretty good outback dirt.

Carawine to Nullagine, the Skull Springs Road, used to be a narrow windy track (six years ago) but last year was much improved.

A favourite part of the Pilbara. I’m heading that way in a fortnight and looking forward to it.

Enjoy the trip.

Cheers

Rocco.

What Rocco said :)
This was our camp site at Shay Gap a few years back....
This is a track to the top of the hill where there used to be tanks for the town.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Shay Gap to Marble bar was always a great trip, especially when the Marble Bar races were on! Thirsty work, let me tell you. It was always a difficult navigation exercise getting back to Shay Gap the next day for reasons that are still unclear to me. A great fog would envelope my memory and got lost easily.

The other memorable experience on that road was when the De Grey river was in flood (circa 1991?). No way of crossing it then as it was about 400 metres across and flowing at about 20 knots!

Margaret and I worked on Yarrie Station for a couple of months in 2008.
These 2 pics of the DeGrey were taken from about the same spot near the homestead, one day apart. We drove across here in the OKA.

The crossing was closed to traffic for over a week.
The crossing from the chopper... The river has dropped 2m.

Note the vehicles on the NE side of the crossing. That is on Yarrie Station, they are good people and that spot is commonly used as a camp site.
The Yarrie and Muccan properties also include the area around Shay Gap, so if you want to wander about, have the courtesy to give them a call first.

My first attempt at driving across.....

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

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We went Marble bar to 80 mile on Bamboo creek rd then Shay gap late May was all good. Then Pardoo to Shay Gap late June, all good with work being done. Then Marble Bar to Carrawine Gorge and on to Telfer all roads very good.