Sandover
Submitted: Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:02
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Blaze
Hi all,
Maybe someone can give me some
feedback regarding the Sandover Hwy. I have been looking on Natmap and I believe the shortest distance from
Camooweal to the Alice is by this track? I think I'm right in also going via No 12 Kilgour
Bore which has a turn off about 40klm's out of
Camooweal along the Barkly Hwy. If anyone knows a shorter way with the tracks about the same or no worse than the Tanami please let me know, we intend on doing this about the 20th of April with a boat in tow on an off-road trailer. Also is LPG available at
Camooweal, I didn't bother looking last year when we went through as I was driving an oiler at the time.
Any info welcome
Reply By: JW - Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:08
Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:08
Blaze,
From what I have read and heard, the Sandover does not see much traffic and is rougher than the Tanami.
Did you consider
Camooweal - Urandangie - Tobermorey and then onto the Plenty?
Just a thought.
THe HEMA map, Outback Qld, does not show a gas symbol for
Camooweal but does so for the Isa. Things may have changed though.
Regards
Jon W
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Reply By: JJ - Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:38
Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:38
Why from
Camooweal, are you coming in from
Burketown? No idea of the trak conditions, but for the extra 150odd ks wouldn't it be much safer (and quicker) to follow the tar? specially towing a boat that would probably fall to pieces if there's corrugations.
In 2003 we were advised by a servo in
Boulia not to take our Jayco poptop over the Plenty, so would imagine the Sandover conditions to be similar, plus the little used trak from
Camooweal could possibly be overgrown. Have you tried RACQ road conditions update?
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Follow Up By: Blaze - Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 16:30
Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 16:30
Tx JJ,
We will be coming down from
Lawn Hill, so will probably keep an eye on the weather and ask what the road is like before we leave
Lawn Hill.
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Reply By: Rick (S.A.) - Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:46
Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:46
Sandover was not too bad when I travelled there last year. Remote, sandy, quiet, etc, but not tough per se. Normal advice about trailers & vehicles in good nic, drop tyre pressures, travel slowly, etc all applies. Can you repair your own tyres on the roadside, without help?
can't comment on the Tanami - have not been there.
You could go through Qld to & hook up at
Lake Nash station, or the way you propose by going west from
Camooweal, south to Austral downs, & join the Sandover then.
Cheers
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