Wednesday, Feb 26, 2003 at 23:20
For a Permit, the info is on this site! -Aborigianal Lands Trust alt@aad.wa.gov.au - the permit took a while so plan ahead. We used Geological 1:250 000 maps Robertson and Gununya. Hema have used our trip reports to map this track - so they may be able to provide some advance map info. You can purchase fuel at
Jigalong, but Murphy Law struck us! - even after phoning ahead the night before, they had run out of ULP just before we arrived. Diesel was OK! We set off about 20 Lt short. Our 3 Subarus crawled into Meeka on the smell of an oily rag - ~1300kms from Capricorn to Meeka (we had 2 diesel vehicles with us). The fuel consumption for our 3 Subarus ('91 "L", '90
Liberty, '01 auto GT Forester) for the section,
Jigalong to
Carnarvon Ra was the same, approx 14 L/100 km. If you would like some extra info drop me a line - colin.johnson69@bigpond.com
This is a great route with no need for fuel drops and fantastic petroglyphs to see at Durba, Calvert and
Carnarvon Ra's. It would also be advisable to contact Neds Creek Station as a matter of courtesy.
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