Quickest drive time from Sydney to Broome/Kimberly's

Well Willie, I believe you neglected Jetstar as a choice LOL have to be shortest and quickest....

Hey Blaze, I think Willem left out Jetstar as a choice because they don't fly to Broome LOL

Dam foiled again, just when I thought I had him LOL

Craig ,

I did exactly the same thing as you last year and did it in four days from Sydney . Blew a tyre @ 100 kph and destroyed a rim going through Gregory NP - exciting . Camped the third night out from Sydney in Jaspar Gorge in Gregory NP and got to Kununurra on morning of the fourth day .

I was driving long hours and not towing .

I would recommend the Top Springs way for scenery and Katherine for comfort .

Willie .

Hi Vince

I plot my trips with whereis.com and this goes through Top Springs but it turns right and does not go through Gregory NP, this would be OK in daylight hours.

Hi Willie

That part of the road cracked my exhaust and blew the daylights out of one of my rear airbags, the problem with the road is it is really good so you tend to let the speed build up then from nowhere your car is either flying or bottoming out, all part of the adventure! ( kids loved it ).

AJB

>The last two days will be easy as!<


Methinks the Tanami Road might slow you down a tad. It has not been graded for a while and is not good in places. Its a long hard day from Alice to Billiluna

We used to leave Billiluna about 2-00 pm on a Friday afternoon and get into Alice about 1-30am and remember we lost 1hr 30mins going over the border! On the return, on the Sunday, we would leave Alice about 9 and get into Billiluna about 5, remember we gained the 1hr and 30 min. That was in 95/96 so the roads were probably better as were the vehicles back then! Did the same 04 and got to Sturt Creek at 5-00 but it was flooded so back out through Balgo, Mulan around the lake and into Billiluna the next day (Camped at Mulan the night).
Long hard day! The schoolies did it, the nuns did it, the store keeper did it, the Admin Manager did it in his Falcon and that included going around the Lake due to flooding, but then it depends on what you're used to. We did it on a Christmas eve once and didn't leave Alice until after lunch but we only went as far as Balgo.
So Vince wants to get to Broome ASAP and thats what he has or can do. The Tanami can be done in a day. The NT side is generally better than the WA side but the majority of it in the NT. It is just a dirt road and if anyone thinks it is difficult or challenging, stay in the suburbs.

Sure, it can be done in a day, preferably in a Hire Car or a Government vehicle. 80/90 max when I was there last. I am not aware of what Vince's outback roads experience is but sitting on anything over that speed and you are looking for trouble.

I drove from Balgo to Alice in June. The road was worse between Balgo and the border than the rest of the Territory road but that bit also wasn't all that flash. Numerous road trains along the route servicing the mining industry chop it up. Bulldust, uneven surface, corrugations aplenty and in the middle of nowhere 7 kilometres of bitumen.

Prior to that my last trip along there was in 94 and prior to that in the 80's and 70's. The road was better in those days.

Yes, the Tanami Track is just a bloody outback road.