Gary Junction & Sandy Blight Junction Roads
Submitted: Monday, May 05, 2008 at 16:47
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Member - Derek D (QLD)
Any feed back on the
Gary Junction Road and the
Sandy Blight Junction Road. Intending travelling in June 2008 with an off road camper. Can't seem to find these roads in the trek notes.
Derek
Reply By: Member - Footloose - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 17:01
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 17:01
AFAIK the
Sandy Blight Junction road was closed last year, is it open again ?
Use the search facility with Gary Junxction Road.
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Follow Up By: equinox - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 18:26
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 18:26
Footy, do you have any idea of the history of the
old truck about 30 metres behind and to the right of your 4WD?
You can just see the top of it over the trees.
Just wondering!!
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Follow Up By: Member - Footloose - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 18:50
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 18:50
No sorry, none at all. I don't even remember it being there, but as Willem says, there's a few along that track.
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Reply By: Willem - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 17:07
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 17:07
Yer right!
Gary Junction Road is a wide gravel road which is graded from time to time. When not graded it has its fair share of corrugations. All flat country with some high hills rising out of the plains. Side of roads littered with burnt out Fords, Commodores, Nissans and Toyotas.
Have not been on SBJ road. Getting a permit for that road from the Central Land Council might still be difficult.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 00:18
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 00:18
Willem
car,t see a problem with getting a permint at the moment.
CLC
Cheers
Richard
5 days to go
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Follow Up By: Willem - Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:00
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 09:00
Thanks Richard. I was unaware that the ban on the SBJ road had been lifted.
Where are you off to?
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 23:08
Wednesday, May 07, 2008 at 23:08
Hi Willem
where of on Monday to do the AB, then have a look at
the painted desert, back along the trans line to
Forrest (sort of fall in love with the place, would like to put the name down as a caretaker one day), south to the black top then
home..
Cheers
R & R +B
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Reply By: Member - Reg T (WA) - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 19:43
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 19:43
Went halfway up from the south in 2006 to start a 500km camel expedition into the
Gibson Desert for a month. Sandy Blight Road was just a track but it was slow easy going.
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Reply By: Member - Stephen L (SA) - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 20:01
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 20:01
Hi Derek
Depending which track you take, you will need a minimum of 3 permits for the NT section. One permit to
Papunya, one from
Papunya to
Kintore and one from
Kintore to the
WA/NT Border on the Sandy Blight
Junction Track. These permits should take about 10 days to get. The WA section for the Sandy Blight
Junction Tracks will take a lot longer. You will need one permit for this section and depending on which way you go from there, more permits for the WA section. If heading back into the NT, another permit from the
WA/NT border through to
Yulara.
We will be up that way in 5 weeks time.
Cheers
Stephen
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Follow Up By: equinox - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 20:57
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 20:57
Hi Stephen,
Got any confluences planned?
I've already uploaded my planned visits.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (SA) - Monday, May 05, 2008 at 21:08
Monday, May 05, 2008 at 21:08
Hi Equinox
I sure have. I hope to log a minimum of about 8 and hopefully 2 that have not been logged yet. Have you got into the Degree Confluence Project as Yet? My biggest regret is that I did not know of this project until only 2 years ago. We have ventured into some very remote
places in the past, where there are still confluences waiting to be logged.
Well that is luck I suppose.
Please let me know when you have logged some, because it is great to see Australian Confluences logged by Aussies. As you would know, many of the Australian Confluences have been logged by visitors from overseas.
Cheers
Stephen.
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Follow Up By: Member - Derek D (QLD) - Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 15:16
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 15:16
Hi Stephen,
Received all our permits for the
Gary Junction and Sandy Blight
Junction Roads last week. No trouble obtaining them.
Thanks Derek.
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Follow Up By: Member - Stephen L (SA) - Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 19:28
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 19:28
Hi Derek
Good to hear that you have your permits. We are off in 2 weeks time, and we can't wait. I have contacted the
Giles Weather Station yesterday and the chap there said the weather out there at the moment is "Bloody Perfect" with most days around 25ºC with cool to cold nights, which is to be expected anyway.
I hope that you have a great trip and if you see a Black Prado with the EO sticker on my back window, say g'day.
Cheers
Stephen
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