Warraweena week

Just a quick update for anyone who is wanting to go to Warraweena in the Northern Flinders. Spent a week up there last week and had a great time. Excellent 4wd'ing. Low range used heaps and it was quite a novelty to get into third gear for the week!

Did two trips - Cockatoo Dunbar Loop and the Old Coach Rd and also did lots of driving around the station itself. A couple of 'well known' spots like "suicide track" was also done. Not as bad as it sounds though but the missus was still scared!

Low Range was used a fair bit on the trips (get in and out of creek crossing's and whilst driving down creek beds etc). The above two drives have a small fee attached as you need to drive onto other stations so I guess a bit of money goes towards maintaining of roads. Walking is excellent (walked from the old Homestead to Mt Gill which was just over an hour) and also did a walk from Donolans campsite.
Having the ability to read a map and compass is essential though as there are no walking tracks and all the chance of getting lost if very high if you can't use a map!

The other great thing about this place is that you have the whole campsite to yourself. Once you have booked the site no-one else is booked for that site. Stony (station manager) is a wealth of information also and a great help.

Anyway bottom line is that if you have to opportunity I thoroughly recommened spending a week up there.

The car (2.8td GQ patrol) excelled itself. Got a few creaks in it now but it was a tough week on it and in the past 12 months has done alot of 4wding. Fuel consumption was brilliant. Took 4 jerry cans but will only take two next time (no fuel available close by). This small engine may lack some grunt of the bigger cars but I still not found a place it won't go and the economy is great making a driving holiday still cheap even with the way the price of fuel is these days.