Simpson Desert - Hay River track

Submitted: Thursday, Jun 22, 2006 at 22:02
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Just a bit of a warning about the Hay River track in the Simpson. South of camp 16, its a lot harder than last year.

A couple of weeks ago, we had 2 vehicles come up from Poeppels Corner. As Ruth and others have been saying the sand is pretty soft this year. We found the dunes had a metre or two more sand than last year, and they had caps on the western sides.

After you head north from the shotline, the track will be mostly lost in the soft sand. So be prepared with the GPS/oziexplorer. We followed our track files from last year and on most places there was no sign of when we went last year.

We had some difficulty breaking the caps off the tops of some of the dunes and I had to get pulled back a couple of times. Glad there was two of us. There were two other vehicles heading south, who later told us they lost our tracks which were only 2 days old, and had difficulty crossing the dunes, so ended up heading further south in the swales until they could link up with the shotline again.

Great trip though.

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