6 week trip w.a.

Hi, Willem,

Do you really think Cape Leveque is fully accessible with 2 WD ?? The same for side trips out of the GRR, like Mitchell Plateau ??.

Apart from this, I agree with you concerning a possible "loop" from kununnura to Meeka

Cheers

Eric

Hi Eric

Yes I have been to Cape Leveque in a 2wd ute. It was sandy in places but with lower tyre pressures we got there and back. On the way back I drove down a beach somewhere and got thoroughly bogged. It took a long while to get off the beach and then only with the help of a 4x4.

I came across a couple who had driven up to Mitchell Falls carpark in a Daihatsu 2wd ute. They had dual tyres on the back axle. Also met two young fellas who had driven there in 2 VW Variants. They had a solid axle with them to hook the cars together should they need it. I also saw a 1970 Holden up at King Edward River campsite.

I will add that these trips were all undertaken in the early 1980's. I did the Kimberley in a Suzuki in 1986.

Many aborigines drive to remote places in their Ford and Holden cars. Sometimes they get there and back. Sometimes they don't :-)

Cheers

Hi Willem,
I think by the 'Loop' he means travelling up to Kununurra via the coast highway then returning via the central highway from Port Hedland or the Boreline Road from 80 mile beach through to Marble Bar then down the Central Highway.
Cheers

Hi Willem,

What yousay is completely true. I also met aborigines with an old Ford Falcon on the way to Cape Leveque. I only think some trips are easier with a 4WD ( I drive a troopy in Oz and a Nissan Patrol at home), provided of course you can drive it, you have the right equipment, and can handle it.

For example, I happened to encounter a kind guy from Perth on the GRR with a broken shock absorber and no tools (he had a toll free number from the rental company as well but no sat phone - I had both). I also met a young Italian guy before a river crossing on the way to twin Falls in Kakadu, with a brand new Cruiser from Britz, who did not know how to switch into low range, did not know as well what hubs might be and that they had to be locked.

Cheers

Eric

Gidday, By 'the loop', really meant going up gibb river from derby to kunnunera & back on the main road to broome, port hedland & down the inland road back to perth. the 4wd is so we can go 'off road' & see places as 2wd drive hire is very limiting.
cheers.

Thanks Trevor for advice we drove in NT and down to Broome last year for 6 weeks all through Litchfeild etc ,and similar the year before .IT was great long distances don"t worry us .This will make you laugh ,I have just completed 32 years in same job and have been given 3 weeks extra holiday so hence only get a short time to make such aneat trip looking forward to it Cheers Hoggy