Sunday, Apr 24, 2005 at 21:46
Allan,
Viv Moon did a story in 4x4 monthly about 12-18 months ago, where they travelled over part of this route. They were all over the place, and it seemed like he was trying to make it difficult, in the story, to know where they had travelled.
From
Kynuna you can travel down the Dick's Creek road(past
Combo Waterhole) to
Winton-
Boulia bitumen, turn left over Wokingham Creek, then turn right down the Diamantina River road. This runs down the River on eastern side to about Davenport Downs, (via Old Cork and
Diamantina Lakes NP) where one road travels on through Palparara, and the other goes down to Monkira Station. Both these hit the
Windorah-
Bedourie road. An alternative to the above is to go from
Kynuna, through
Kynuna Station, Ranges Valley(abandoned), and come out at Middleton Pub. From there you travel down the Mackunda stock route to Old Cork, and join the Diamantina River road there.
Of course you could always go across the River at the 'Lakes, through Springvale Station, then turn left through Coorabulka, and hit
Windorah-
Bedourie road, SE of Cluny Station. Not far to
Bedourie, or a good drive is down the
Lake Machattie(spelling?) Bypass, to
Birdsville.
If you've got to the
Windorah-
Bedourie road okay, and haven't run out of fuel, beer or food, then proceed toward
Windorah a few clicks, then turn right down the Mooraberrie road, which passes this station, and comes out at
Betoota. Then it's just a few hours down the road to see Ruth & Ian, and have a beer at the Pub!
Travel times are up to you, but you can go from
Kynuna to
Birdsville in a day, but you wouldn't see much. Roads are fair to good, at moment, but heaps of road trains on some, will powder up parts of road surface, and increase travel times. But that's what you've got the 4by for, isn't it?
Hooroo...
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Follow Up By: Allan - Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:07
Tuesday, Apr 26, 2005 at 07:07
thanks bob, just what I was looking for
Allan
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