Desert Flags

ey Sandman!
Was asking those same questions to myself also. So what is involved to get a pass? I'z wouldn't ave a clue!!!!!!

Cheers
Jo

Jo, search for Desert Parks Pass in the Exploroz shop. $95.

Mark & Jo
Desert Pass' can be obtained en-Route at Birdsville and the Pink Roadhouse, and at Mt Dare, not sure about where at Innamincka if they have them ,

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There is a Parks Office at Innaminka (just behind the public shower) where you can get your pass.

Jack

Three times we have been through there, and each time the causeway has been too high to cross to Coongie lakes.
So we camped on the town common for the usual $5.00 fee.
Don't need a desert park pass to camp there.

Once we did get a desert parks pass and only used it to camp a little further up the cooper where it was a little quieter.

Get to those Coongie lakes one day. :o)

Wonder how long the cooper will be up for this year with all of the water coming down it?
At least the bridge outside Inamincka is all weather, even if the cooper crossings coming in from Thargomindah can be cut. Once we had to wait a day or so for it to be opened, and then paddled through.

Laura,

Was that via the Cordillo Downs track?

na...we went walkers crossing....we kept our options open depending on what they told us....girls at the trading post said c.d.r was really corrigated and walkers was a little wind blown....couldnt see the track a few times but it was ok hey!! lots of sand dunes for a bit , then wild flowers, then totally different country again..then gibber.....its one of those ways that there is no stopping for the night until you get to birdsville...

we left dig tree 9.30am, left trading post at 11am, lunch at the actual walkers crossing at 2pm.....birdsville at 6.15pm, dinner at the hotel at 7pm!!

sand flags are just a way of life i think out there....they arent law but boy did i feel safer with one on even going down the oodnadatta track....

Laura

Craig

I vaguely remember some trees close to the road to Coongie which may take a sand flag out.

I have been using a 5 meter telescopic fibreglass Wog Pole(Squid pole) but it has succumbed to the rigors of desert travel and now down to about 3 metres in size...lol

Cheers

Yes the squid poles being hollow do tend to snap occationally which is unfortunate as they are nice & tall ,not too heavy & pack away for the trip home. I've settled on taping a 5' fibreglass ex CB antena to the top of my GME 6' UHF. The big spring base lets it fold down without wiping it off (so far).
Cheers Craig...........

Haha - I like it!

Rich