anyone in Townsville

That is a fair old drive away from Townsville, 41/2 hrs...still our Townsville club does that one each year. There are two great tracks withing a few hours of Townsville- one on private property (you will need to be a member of our club) and one on gazetted road. The one on gazetted road is a long drive to get to, and only about 25 k long but definitely a challenge and damn good driving with a great camp site.

It's closer than Victoria !!!!!!

Yes but think of the fun you could have getting there.
I have corresponded with these guys and they are looking for predominently day trips. There are not too many challenging day trips around Tvlle. Still Paluma and Hidden Valley and such could be a good long day trip. I guess you could even run up to Blencoe falls and back in a day.
Beach driving is available at Wunjunga heading south toward Rocky Ponds Creek near Cape Upstart, but beware of the tide!!

I kind of thought that it was fairly close right up the top and there might have been other places near by, they are nice people Nino & Kerry we have met, good luck guys and take care..

Baz.

Thanks for that Rosscoe, I will get on their site and see if we can track him down.

Nino & Kerry

The CREB track is 470klms north of Townsville

Cheers Rob

Thanks Gordon,

We'll definitely be there and check things out. Looking forward to it.

Nino & Kerry

where is access to dunes from that road?

Thanks Trol

Now all we need to do is get some maps. Could you suggest any maps that might be suitable?

Nino & Kerry

dunes access from cungulla, just go to the end of the road (to the east)

if you want sand, and are a bit concerned about ripping into dunes right next to a national park, then head to Ayr, and go to alver beach (signs off the highway) and play out there. everyone from Ayr goes there, and it get s rebuilt after cyclones, so the damage is relative....

Maps, really there isn't much for TSV that I know of, but SunMaps over in Garbutt sell topographic maps, and have these maps that have 4 normal ones in one scale (dont' ask me what size, they will know what you need) and these are fine for travelling about.

I'm only in town for awhile, and too busy to join a club, but would highly recommend doing so. They would know of heap of places.

TrolUte

p.s. for a bit of tyre ripping fun, just go to the old cattle yards (junction of bruce hwy and ingham rd, go past the firestation, and head up the hills there.