camping on tanami

Vivien,

There are some camp sites along the track, but they seem to be in the wrong place. Too close to Alice or too far.

Rabbit Flat is about the right spot, but we tend to have a bush camp about 15klm short of RF.

The problem with the Tanami that there are not a lot of places that are off the road that don't belong to mining company's or locals and are out of site.

Wayne

I camped going and coming on the Track last July. We found a place by watching for indistinct tracks off the Road into the scrub. We camped at the same location in both directions - I don't have the GPS location - I didn't own one then but it was off the the south and within site of a Telsta tower on the northern side of the road - just west of Rabbit Flat. I think just about anywhere would be good but make sure you 'hide' and your lights etc cannot be seen from the road. (I have no fear whatever of indigenous people - only the immigrant maniacs that abound in Australia).
The place we found had had a small round pellets of some kind on the ground - very like the earth on Kangaroo island. I'm no geologist but it looks as if it contains some mineral or another - good to camp on though.
[I should say I doubt if ad hoc camping is 'legal' in the trespass sense - I don't know who 'owns' the land for a kilometer etheir side of the road. It may be legally irrelevant - if you are a bona fide traveller and if you or one of your party are feeling tired (or are actually ill) you may have a common law 'right' to stop and ensure your (and yours) safety by pulling off the road if the land is unfenced - it is unfenced along the Tanami].
Enjoy

vivien,
Click on 'Trip Planning' (below Home at top of page); scroll down & click on Travel Journal and find Exploroz Team's journal on the Tanami. Excellent read.
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Best camp spot is over the back of a hill not far past the Granites. You can't camp anywhere near the granites, but when heading north, just past the Granites there is a small hill with a cairn on top. Drive over the hill to a cleared area on the other side. Watch the distant light trails of multi-trailered trucks on the haul road at night.
Best spot on the Tanami road.

Dave O

Sturt Creek has great camping spots

About 45kms Shy of the WA border on the south side of the road....see small but well defined track heading south....about a km or 2 down there you will see evidence of others camping there (including myself twice)....and enough firewood for tea/night....worth checking other tracks as you get near camping time I suppose too....Have Fun!!!!

Cheers
Mick.

BEWARE THE FLIES AND THE TYRE PUNCTURING STICK. Camped just past the Granites about 10 years ago. Wife and daughter retreated to the tent as soon as it was half up, while son and I wore onion bags to keep the flies back until sundown. Punctured two tyres in about 20 meters. Just little sticks! We had to bash a line flat before we could leave in the morning.

Magnificent at sunset tho!

Vivien,

Member message EO member - BigKidz and ask them to tell you where the gravel pit was that they camped in last year. Tell 'em I sent you LOL!

:o))) Melissa

David,
Yep know it, now you mentioned the rock cairn. Was pretty windy when we went up to bo-peep.
Us surveyors can't resist a cairn on top of any hill, especially Cannings on the CSR.
Thanks.