Travel light to the Cape

Thats what we did this year,,, so yes you can.....
You can have different people take different things for sure... Just dont go your own ways whilst you are up there and forget about your sharings...

And a list of wasted space and weight,,,,

Warn winch.
Every piece of recovery gear i had including high lift jack and shovel.
Both of my spare wheels/tyres.

But you need to treat them all like insurance,,,,, you may not need them but you surely might..
So most things are a must to take even though you know you may not need them..

As Voxson said treat all recovery items as insurance.

Be prepared for the unexpected. Do not forget tools.

We had one chap on our trip this year put his new (spare) fan belts on the vehicle before the trip. One broke and took out the other belts. He was the only one that had no spares with him. Nobody else had belt problems.

Enjoy the experience it is great.

We also set some protocols for the trip such as setting a departure time on days of travel. This enabled all to be ready by a given hour. (some like to sleep in).

We also had regular (every 20Km) checks to see if the tail end charlie was there. This eventuated after we left one not happy camper way behind.

Redeye

Look seriously at the amount of clothing you take, I think and Steve will tell you that I packed too many!

The other thing we did being a small group of friends was when we meet up on the first morning we exchanged spare keys and exchanged a page of next of kin, insurance details, phone no's etc with each person! just make sure if anyone is leaving the group for a few days that they don't have your keys!

Sandy

1. Well I took a large tarp, poles, pegs etc for some longer stays at places but found not needed and I would not bother with it next time.

2. I would change my set up with gas bottles and then I could leave one behind. as I had one for the 3 way fridge and one for cooking.

3. Reduce the amount of cloths (not that they weigh much)

4 The biggest weight issue I had was my spare parts box and tools, which I felt was a MUST, but i would work out what spanners fit my vehicle and leave the rest behind (a big saving for me).

There would be more but cannot think of them at the moment.

Brian

Travelling light on this sort of trip can sometimes be a real proble. We are going to the Cape next year also. My wife won't go without the CT and I won't go without the boat. Guess we'll have to identify a lot of other stuff to offload.

Clothes is the main thing we used to carry too much of. Doesn't weigh much, but takes up a lot of space. We have also cut down on canned food. We used to carry at least 4 weeks supply on big trips so we could avoid regular shopping and high prices. We now shop more regularly (when we can) and just pay the higher prices into the local economy.

Hi There
Just an ides for you.
Some people do not like divolging personal info, so I get the people on my trips to wright all the relevant info on a card and stick to the inside of the glove box lid, every one is the same so that if needed every one knows where to find the card.
No Card No Trip.

Please dont take offence anyone.
It fasinates me on forums that you start with one thing and end up with another thing somewhere along the way.

I suppose the heaviest items are fuel, water, recovery gear/spares.

Depending on where you are going, max distance from fuel is about 500k of 4wding? Better check that.
Plenty of water around, so don't take 4 weeks worth of water.
(Or put too many slabs of beer in, alcohol is also an issue on the Cape.)
As said above, think summer for clothes.

And as you said, share the recovery gear and spares around.

Other big issue is vibration.
I have seen beer cans rub through, and long life milk turn to cream.

Hi

On thing I did this year was work out how many days to warm weather and just have enough cloths, we washed them at Cairns and put them into compression sacks and then buried them until we got back to Cairns.

The long life packed meat at the supermarket at Saeisa is excellent and guaranteed for 21 days in your fridge other items where kinda expensive but better than dragging it up their yourself, except soft drink something like $5 a 1.25 bottle of no name. Beer was cheaper, could be the problem!

You will have fun