Thursday, Jul 18, 2002 at 00:00
Brad,
I travelled the Telegraph track all the way to the
Jardine 3 weeks ago, Gunshot is definately passable, the talk is a while ago a fella spent 2 days with a pick and shovel and dug out beside the 2nd hardest crossing which gave an easy but very narrow access to the creek, the 2 harder accesses are a boghole at the bottom, knee deep, and when I looked at them, 1 had some blokes blinkers lenses embedded in the mud...so it was easy to decide to leave my winch and blinker lenses alone and take the newer cutout.
The hardest crossing at the moment is probably Palm Creek, which is the 1st one you cross going north, after the turnoff for the Southern by-pass road.
Give the by-pass roads a big miss and just do the Telegraph,, the amount of "tourists" up there are making the by-pass roads very very dusty and corugated, the Northern by-pass was graded 3 weeks ago, so it could be bleep again by now.
Cheapest fuel is actually at the top, Seisa BP, 99 cpl.
Andrew.
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