The TRIP BUG is starting to bite !!!
Submitted: Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:27
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Member -Signman
Notice from posts over the last few weeks that lotsa ExplorOz-ers are planning trips for the coming Autumn & Winter. I wonder if it would be worthwhile having a register of who's going where and when- so maybe other forumites in the area could meet up for a sherbert (or two)..
BTW- anyone heading up
Cape York July/August????
Reply By: Member - Beatit (QLD) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:32
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:32
Planning
Cape Melville late September. At this stage 4 cars going.
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Reply By: Vince NSW - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:41
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:41
Not the Cape, but down to the Flinders for the Members gathering then up to do the West to East crossing of the Simpson.
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Reply By: draff - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:42
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:42
you are right about the Trip bug! its the only way to get through work - start planning and thinking about the next trip!
we went to the cape last year and are heading to the nt and possibly the
kimberley this year.
I can thoroghly recommend the following
places up
Cape York if you are interested:
* Virlya point (west coast) - magic beach camping and fishing
*
camp site on the southern side of Cockatoo creek
* and of course swimming in
twin falls is amazing
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47
Thanks draff
Any other recommendations gratefully accepted....!!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Beatit (QLD) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:31
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:31
Also a fan of Verilya Point.
Had a great few days there and also enjoyed the fishing
Kind regards
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Follow Up By: Voxson - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:03
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:03
Cape York June-July... Ya still want it to be a little bit wet in the creeks..
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Follow Up By: Member - Beatit (QLD) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:17
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:17
Last year I'd reckon you would have had a lot more than a "little", the wet seemed to go on till June. I suppose it would depend on where and which creeks.
Kind regards
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Follow Up By: Voxson - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 23:23
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 23:23
I would have been dissapointed if it was any less wet when we went in June last year...
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Reply By: Member - andrew G (VIC) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:15
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:15
hi your right about people escaping especially melb winter. We are off in june not due back to melb till sept . Only thing keeping me going at work LOL hate my job but a good place to plan trip. Will be in capeyork around july depending how many times we stop from melb . A regester might be a good idear. Would be good to catch up with other forumites. !MPG:3!
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Reply By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:17
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:17
Signman ,
That trip register is a great idea . Everyone could see who was heading where and organise to meet up ( or maybe avoid me , sob )
In March I am travelling west of
Alice Springs by camel to go "where vehicles cannot " ( Startrek ? )
On May 10 , I am off to the
Kimberley via the Plenty Hwy and
the Tanami Track .
We intend to get out to
Walcott Inlet . On May 30 , my wife flies in to the
Mitchell Plateau , to join us for a while . Then the women leave and a friend and I , go on a thirteen day bushwalk in the Drysdale NP . Then I guess , I will drive
home and be back in
Sydney towards the end of June .
Willie .
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Reply By: Member - Toytruck (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:35
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:35
I thought there was already a trip register!!!! Called Members
Trips and Gatherings!
Toytruck
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:50
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:50
Ah- not all 'forumites' are necessarily ExplorOz members !!
Don't really want to be discriminatory about this.
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Follow Up By: Member - Toytruck (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:53
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:53
I must admit,
I am on my fourth trip this year and have not posted any of em :-(
Toytruck
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Follow Up By: Member - Toytruck (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:56
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:56
Sorry,
I should also add, most of my 2 to 3 day trips I do not plan. My wife and I have always had a habit of waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning and thinking.....lets go for a drive so up we get gear and kids in the car and away we go. Sometimes we will cover a couple of thousand K's in a standard weekend, and thats with three kids.
I'll have to try actually planning a trip one day :-)
Toytruck
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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 13:35
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 13:35
The best way to do the small trips. In the early eighties we wanted to head north of WA, (we had six weeks up our sleeve) All we had planned was to head straight up North to the furtherest point that we had been before, then we went to each spot ,checked it out and moved on. We had four
young kids (9yrs to 5yrs) towed the caravan (dirt roads and all) and finished up in
Darwin. The only area that we didn't cover was the GRR (which hopefully if all goes
well this year we may be doing in July/August. That trip was one of our great trips and the kids still remember parts of it, even the then 5yo.
Cheers
D&B
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Reply By: Tony - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:45
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:45
Going to the west in July. Part of the trip will be the bottom 1/2 of the Canning, from north to south (leaving the Camper in
Newman).
As for north as Headland, back to the east coast by late Oct/Nov.
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Reply By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:29
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:29
We are already back from our first for the year - 10 days around Tasmania. We had to go down for a family funeral and used the excuse to get mud on the
heritage listed Paj - it hasn't seen any in SA for a while (but it did belt down here while we were away).
Loved the little trek into
Montezuma falls. We were filling up at a servo in
Queenstown 2 day s later and the bloke says "and how was
Montezuma Falls?" He reckons you can always tell when someone has been there from the pattern of the mud sprays.
Cheers
Pete
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:46
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:46
Hi Pete
Had the same response from probably the same servo. March last year..
Went into the Falls after 3 days of heavy rain- and it was spectacular..
Didn't risk the Ring
River Track though...maybe next time !!!!
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Follow Up By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:56
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 14:56
Hi Signman,
We were there after a day and a half of serious rains and it was fantastic. We skipped the Ring
River Track as
well. From what I have read once you start you were committed and I wasn't keen on the
river crossing after the rain. The worst part about the drive in was wondering where I was going to pass someone if they were going the other way.
Did you drive the Spray Tunnel near
Zeehan?
Pete
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Follow Up By: Member -Signman - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 15:12
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 15:12
Spray Tunnel is a 'standing joke' between me & SWMBO (the navigator)...
When we got to the tunnel, had to get out & remove our rather tall HF antenna..
Went thru the tunnel- had a look around the working- put the HF antenna back on, and proceeded back toward
Zeehan.
Somehow turned L instead of R...and ended up at the tunnel AGAIN..
Out of car- remove HF antenna- drive thru tunnel- refit antenna...
And SHE reckoned it was MY fault....!!!!!!!
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Follow Up By: Pajman Pete (SA) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 15:56
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 15:56
And does everyone do the same thing:
Drive through tunnel
Stop
Co-Pilot hops out with camera
Back up
Co_pilot takes photo of 4by 'emerging' from tunnel.
We did that and 2 others also did while we were wandering around the
mine looking for a geocache (muggled)
The other thing about Spray Tunnel we wondered is why it is not signposted on the main road or mentioned in the trip guides - we only found out about because of David and Michelle wrote it up in their Tassie Trip report.
!MPG:12!
Pete
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Reply By: Member - David A (QLD) - Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 20:01
Friday, Feb 09, 2007 at 20:01
We are off to the centre via the Davenport ranges,
home via oodnadatta/
birdsville. Leaving
Easter Monday,
home mid May. (Miss the member gathering at Mt Dare by about a week, but constrained by leave dates).
Cheers
David
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Reply By: Member - sparra - Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:15
Saturday, Feb 10, 2007 at 07:15
end of august i'm leaving here[
shark bay w.a.] heading to
alice springs on
gary junction rd then
plenty highway to
boulia to meet up with mates from bairnsdale [3 vehicles] then going up to
cape york for a look around. have'nt been up that way since 1986 when we were doing some seismic work a little east of arukun.
cheers sparra.
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Reply By: Mark & Jo, S/side, Bris - Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:36
Sunday, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:36
No post on the thread from any of the elite in charge...
So do they even know about the idea? good one I say.
You're an ideas man!
Cheers
Jo
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