Howdy Forumites ,
I got back Saturday from two weeks in the
Alice Springs area . Twice we were rained out - the second time we just made it out of the Eastern James Ranges with
a camel trailer and two beasts before we were locked in for a week .
Trips we did :
Went out to the Finke at
Horseshoe Bend Station and camped the night . Came back to Stuart's
Well and camped .
Went on a five day trip up through from
Ernest Giles Rd to Tempe Downs , Illara WH , Stone Yards , Conways WH , Bowson's Hole , Areyonga , Three Holes , Spider WH , Buka WH , Fall Down WH , Ilamata Springs , Ilbilla , then back down through Tempe again and crossed the Palmer River further west than we went in , as we were cut off by
water logged claypans .You need to know people on these properties to do this trip . Some of the tracks had not been travelled much in the last couple of years , and we had a lot of trouble finding them , and staying on them when we had found them .
Did a day trip out to Walkabout ,
Rainbow Valley Renner's Rock .
We also did a half day 4WD trip down the Hugh River in WW Valley . Does anybody have any info on the plane wreck in there ?
Next , we took two camels out by trailer and established a base in the Eastern James Ranges . Then we made two day trips into the James Ranges . It rained heavily then and we were lucky not to be stuck in there for a few days .
The weather report looked bad , so we left the balance of our trip for next year .
No mechanical problems with the car . Plenty of interesting aboriginal
cave paintings and rock peckings /
engravings . Many beautiful waterholes in the gorges and had some memorable swims .
Note .
I have old and new maps of the James Ranges and there are huge variations in the spelling of many of the names of waterholes etc .
I did not get a GPS Route / Track of the trip as my GPS crapped itself .
Cheers ,
Willie .