Tablelands Track - Kimberley region

Austravel .. see answer & contact details in reply below. If you find out anything different please let me know

i'll be going in late Jul/early Aug so if you want to give me your details i'm happy to give you a call/email afterwards to let you know status of track & access etc

I'm at .... drew.thornton@truenergy.com.au

You could try the Indigenous Co-ordination Centre in Derby on 08 9193 3133.

Knew I had it somewhere

Winun Ngari Resource Centre
12 Miniritchie Place, Derby, WA, 6728.
PO Box 500, Derby
Phone 9191 1877
Fax 9191 1964

There was talk a while back that the track past Tablelands Homestead and through Bedford Downs station had been closed with a locked gate.

Thanks Wombat those details were enough to get me the final details. For anyone that is interested the situation re Tablelands seems to be this at the moment:
- there is no permit required per DIA website
- Tablelands HS is owned by Yulumbu Aboriginal Corporation. Spoke to their chairperson, Wallace Mimbi (who is located at Imintji Community during the wet season) who said access is ok (no paperwork needed) but to check with him (via Imintji 08 9191-7699) closer to our travel time for the latest road conditions.
- Bedford Downs Station (Rachel) said the gate is no longer locked & access is ok (no paperwork needed) but to check closer to our travel time for road conditions. Ph: 08 9167 8829

If anyone doesn't think this sounds right then please let me know!

PS: Lets hope no-one else ruins the track again & prompts the landowners to close access again

Perhaps a letter of thanks to both owners after you travel thru will be a nice gesture to help keep them in favour of access.

Yes David I was intending that anyway. Unfortunately all the goodwill in the world gets crushed by just one idiot who eventually drives this track, leaves the gates open, leaves his rubbish behind, roars thru the homesteads in a cloud of dust etc

Yep I hear you

My pleasure Drew, enjoy your trip.