Kimberley Trip Planning and Communications

Submitted: Monday, Feb 21, 2005 at 21:26
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Hi EO'rs
We are planning our 8 week Kimberley Holiday and are planning to leave mid May. We are travelling pretty much alone but I reckon that there will be some other people up there that we might run in to at some point. Will go up to Mitchell Falls and Kalumburu and Cape Leveque and Middle Lagoon etc..... surely there will be someone up there... hahaha

We went to Cape York in 2003 and met people all along the way on the road and didn't really need any whiz bang communications stuff - one of the people we were with had a Satellite phone.

I am not convinced that we really need a Sat phone or an HF radio - I am sure that they would be nice but I don't imagine that we will really need them. I see that you can buy a Sat phone for about $800 on Ebay and I guess you can sell it after your trip if you don't still want it. An HF radio would also be nice but they seem pretty complicated for a simple mind like mine to fathom - maybe I should ask my 11 year old son......

So........do we need something......I will probably take a bit of a first aid kit - bandaids and panadol and that sort of stuff. Also what has the wet been like up there this year? Any good spots to put in our tinnie and have a fish?

Less than three months now ........ and counting down....

Andrew
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