Mungo NP
Submitted: Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:46
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Member - Matt L (NSW)
Hi All,
Is the detour to
Mungo national park worth it and can you sneak in and out with a small dog.
Regards,
Matt
Reply By: Member - John and Val W (ACT) - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:54
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:54
Mungo NP is a very special place - an important destination rather than a detour!!Quite apart from it's importance as a historic site dating back tens of thousands of years, it has some fantastic wind sculpted sand formations on the western side and on the eastern side of the main dune (lunette) is also
well worth visiting and climbing.
Dog? Dunno. No way I would.
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Reply By: Member - Arkay (SA) - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:27
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:27
IMHO - Mungo Lodge accomodation &/or meals now managed locally and is fine, Visitor & interpretation centre is O.K., Woolshed is good if you have not seen many before,
Walls of China accross
Lake Mungo are worth the visit but may not be as high as you may be expecting, Exploroz readers should definitely take the 60km or so loop drive (anti-clockwise) behind the Walls (several
bush camping sits available) & see Vigars
Well (old Cobb & Co stopping off point) etc.
You can go up from
Mildura then back by
Wentworth (less dirt more bitumen). Overall rating for the trip 8 out of 10.
Dog? Nope.
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Reply By: DIO - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:33
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:33
G'day Matt, you'll find Mungo a very fascinating place. Enthralling history, huge vista, peaceful and quiet. Lots of wildlife, running roaming all over the place (depending on time of year). Last thing NP would want is a dog entering the environs and perhaps bringing in disease or infection (always a possibility) and besides, in that part of the country you need to be be very wary of baits (1080/Strychninne type) they cause death very swiftly.
Check with NP Office at Buronga (just across the
bridge from
Mildura) if there's any rain in the area. They will advise you of road conditions and if open. Roads are all dirt (clay) and they become impassable after small amoount of rain.
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Reply By: Dave198 - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:47
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:47
Gday Matt, I have been to Mungo many times with my prevoius job, and it's
well worth the trip.
There is an FM radio channel you can tune into to get when you get there, it gives you quite a lot of the story about Mungo.
I always used to allow 2 hours to go along the
Arumpo road to Mungo from
Mildura (108 Kms). There are usually quite a few bulldust holes and corrugations along there.
The
Top Hut Road is generally better but is a lot further to go.
Haven't been along the
Balranald road though.
There are some good websites with Mungo info, just Google.
Dogs. No!
Dave
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Reply By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:58
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 14:58
The Buronga to
Arumpo Road is currently in really bad condition.
There is a kitty-litter
mine up there and they are bringing tipper trucks with tipper trailers (big ones) up and down there.
Once you're off the bitumen, it is bulldust gallore until you get to Mungo basically.
There is one section where some tourists put their Wicked Van and it was so deep in bulldust they couldn't get out!
Now, the council has put up those red warning posts - lots of them, and made a few km of slalom track ... don't put a wheel wrong at speed - the wholes are terrible.
Also a couple of the grids are in bad repair too...
But worth the trip - absolutely, although they have probably finished the boardwalk now at the erosion gullies where
the loop road crosses the shoreline, so you will be penned in a little more than a few weeks ago.
Cheers
Andrew.
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Reply By: Member - Mungo Explorer (NSW) - Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 23:42
Friday, Mar 23, 2007 at 23:42
Been there dozens of times, best place in NSW but strictly no dogs. Roads are not as bad as some other posts suggest, easy access even for 2WD with care and when dry, but a different story altogether after rain. The
Arumpo road from
Mildura is rougher than the
Balranald road(s) but also prettier. There's always the approach via
Pooncarie, some of which is blacktop. My own favourite is from Ivanhoe.
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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:53
Sunday, Mar 25, 2007 at 21:53
Mungo Explorer - if you've not been on the Buronga-
Arumpo road recently you don't realise how bad it is. Sure, there are numerous people driving it in 2WDs, but is in a very bad state because of the volume of trucks.
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