Australia's hardest touring track?

Will be tar by the end of this year - based on info from our trip there in May.

Yep wouldn't doubt that David. They were completing 28km of it in one hit towards the top end when I left 10 days ago. No doubt you'd have seen that. I was amazed at how much bitumen they had completed since last year. A top spot to spend a few relaxing days. Did you see the single, somewhat wobbly line towards the center of the new section of road. A chap had a flat and didn't want to change the tyre at night so drove her down to the rim on the dirt and then all the way to Lombardina carving a great gouge in the entire section of new road. Add another hundred grand to the cost of resurfacing the damage.

Got to agree Mick it was totally RS last year. Other bad road was from Drysdale to the Mitchell Plateau Rd. Didn't deserve to be called a road.

You can bet the prices on accomodation & camp sites will double in price in the near future to pay for it!!!!!!!!

Yep, that’s right Mick
Cape Leveque Rd is as good as Cape York from Coen up to Jardine River but both trips are worth of suffering.

Could add Nobby's beach, it took about 3 weeks for the Pasha to recover from that little adventure :)

Kev

Hi Kev,

Yes we had a great trip. Gave the winch a really good workout when we got hopelessly bogged on the North bank of Canal Creek. Single line pull until she pulled no more then double line from there. Inched out slowely but took a good 40 minutes to do so. Camper was around 2.8 and car around same so all up 5.6 ton bogged up to the sills.

The OTL was hard but we drove it with camper with no major issues (except getting bogged and the car suddenly stopping just South of Gunshot due to a broken fuel shutoff solenoid wire which was diagnosed and fixed in around 20 minutes).

Saw and heard of lots of horror stories of people drowing their cars in Ducie creek and Nolans Brook. Reasons why - PEOPLE NOT WALKING CREEK CROSSINGS! They would drive straight in and go through the deepest hole in the creek which in the case of Ducie and Nolans was just below chest height.

Insurance covered everything to do with the fire without question and I have an open case if anything further is found. Really happy with them but still pi$$ed off wth the Accesory shop who is still denying that they stuffed up (the winch was supposedly stuffed when they tested it but auto electrician gave it the all clear on a second opinion). So happy with end result.

Trip report is being written and will post photo's soon.

Regards
David

Sounds like a very memorable trip.

Good to see that the winch saga worked out also.

Cheers Kev

I have to agree with both these. The last 12 k of the Port warrender track took us 2 hours recently. The Walcott Inlet track is also a tough one. The Maytow track is pretty damn tough too.

If I thought there was any end to this ever changing question - well at least the answer is always changing, I would have said the Port Warrender and Walsh Point "roads" ... the last five k's around to Walsh Point make the Point Warrender Road look like a walk in the park.

Then there are some tough high country tracks - but they might not qualify as touring tracks.

Cheers
Andrew.

Didn't know my wife had a second husband. Lol

Greedy woman, wants three men in her life. lol