Strzelecki & Oodnadatta tracks

I was preparing for our trip in Sep last night and thought the Strzelecki might be an option. I notice on the map an "old Strzelecki" and just plain "Strzelecki" tracks. I'm interested in recent feedback too.

Gaz

The road from the Strzlecki to Cameron Corner is good dirt and will take you about 1.75 hrs
Vince

G Day Allan,
can i come with you?
this time last year we did a simillar trip, from Oodnadatta to dalhousie took 3 hours and from dalhousie springs to kulgera took about 3.5 to 4 from memerory but we were towing an off road goldstream camper.
dalhousie is not that far from Oodnadatta and we thought it would take about 1.5 hrs to travel but as we were getting fuel at the pink road house we started to chat to them ( as you do ) and they said it would take 3 hrs we laughed but they laughed last as it took three hours on the button. One point of interest though on the way in we past a guy who was fixing his third flat in about 2 klms and and he said the road was shocking but i would have liked to have known how quick he was driving as we had no problems and thought the road was OK
have a great trip
Pmacks

buggered if i know vince
we had six vehicles all towing and we all ran about 30 psi all round even on the trailers did a total of 8000 klms only had two flats overall, one was on the highway from curtin springs to the rock ( picked up a nail ) and the other was a side wall puncture on the road from yunta across to martins well. I do not now if we were just lucky but i always run about 30 psi when travelling in the out back and 38 round town, only ever go below 30 when doing sand driving.
peter

The Strezlecki to Camerons Corner is a good road and once you get closer to Moonba it is almost like a highway as the oilcompanys look after the road. The road from Oodnadatta to Dalhousie is a little ruff with corigations and lots of gibber rocks. Dalihousie is very nice, beautiful spot atleast allow a day to look around there(don't foget your bathers). As for tyre pressure we did the I tyre doing the simpson 3 weeks ago and that was because we had psi to high. We had them around 20 and it was fine. Hope you have a good trip the country up there is really beautiful now after all the rain.

Patrick

The ageless question what pressure do I run , there is no definitive answer as there are too many variables . Common sense and experience will say that it depends on the vehicle , load , tyres , speed , temperature , terrain (sand gravel bitumen) one has to assess all of these when tripping. Always nice to have a starting point of course ,and my preferences for my setup is 36 on the bitumen 25 on gravel and start with 20 on the sand and experiment for best results.

good luck Rigor.

Allan

Strez to Camerons is quite easy if it's dry. Wet?? well that's another story. First time I drove was in '91 and it p*ssed off that a little Subaru (nuthin like todays models) was flying across. Last trip was two years ago and I reckon in the dry I could have driven the commode across.

Mate, Oodnadatta to Dalhousie, if anything like it was in '89 will definitely take more than 1 1/2 hrs. Lots of gibbers which I believe are still there. Can't remember how long it took but we could only travel at about 20k for a lot of the time before we hit the Ood track.

Can't really help on the rest as I believe it has changed over the years. But even back then there was really no problem except isolation if something went wrong. Never did.

Enjoy mate, it's God's own country, and I'm jealous.

Allan

A group of us did the Strezlecki Track 4 weeks ago. We travelled from Lyndhurst to Innamincka and the road was in excellent condition. We thought it should be renamed the Strezlecki Highway rather than Track.

Glenmac