Trip Planning into South West Qld
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 20:06
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Member - Bruce and Anne
Am planning a trip into SW Qld
Easter school holidays, after getting to
Charleville going on to
Quilpie down to
Thargomindah via
Toompine to
Hungerford and up to
Eulo.
Home via
Cunnamulla and
St George.
What I would like to know is, on these roads after rain (which they have been getting a bit of) what sort of conditions would I find, black soil etc, many river crossings, do they get graded often etc ?
Also do many people start on there trips to Cameron's Corner/
Innamincka this time of year? Iam hoping it has started to cool down a bit by then, anyway good advice is always welcome.
Cheers Bruce.
Reply By: Max - Sydney - Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 22:15
Thursday, Mar 08, 2007 at 22:15
Bruce
If its not bitumen in bit of the world - the road will close after a few mm of rain.
Three years ago we spent - 1 night on road from
Wanaaring to
Tibooburra (was not raining at
Wanaaring when we left it), four nights in
Tibooburra waiting for any road to dry out, two nights in Innaminka waiting for roads to
Birdsville to dry out, four nights in
Birdsville waiting for any road to dry out, then headed south rather than the Simpson which did not reopen for a couple of weeks after that.
That's pretty normal when some rain comes - not much warning, pours like mad and you had better have a box of reserve food, enough gas and a pack of cards!!
Pre-trip watch the BOM weather site, and ring the RACQ & SA Road Conditions recorded message lines for a few days ahead. Also the road reports on this site are helpful. All can be accessed from any of those towns - public phones or the library computer.
A call to the police at one or two of the towns on the way is not a bad precaution.
By the way - with the right spirit enforced stays can be fun. But you're mad to deliberately head into trouble.
That help?
Max
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:35
Friday, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:35
Charleville to
Quilpie - bitumen
Quilpie to
Thargomindah - mostly bitumen from memory.
Thargo to
Hungerford - some dirt
Hit the bitumen at
Eulo, for the rest of the way back.
Most dirt you mentioned is formed dirt with road base, graded out of local material in a few
places. Could be corrugated depending on latest
grader run.
Not much black soil out there.
Could be warm. Not that many wet creek crossings unless a lot of local rain.
Imagine the cooper may be starting to drop by then for the road into and out of Inamincka, but I am not sure how high it is at the moment.
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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Saturday, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:55
Saturday, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:55
Yep Oldplodder has it right.
Thargo to
Hungerford is a
well formed road mostly - good gravel base.
South of
Wanaaring is another matter, but you don't sound like you're going there.
Not so much black soil as clay that made for the muddiest slipperiest 3 hours driving I have ever done - mind you it rained two inches in a few hours.
Cheers
Andrew.
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