Melb to Alice to Kimberly's to Kakadu to Birdsville and back

Wheaters
Cyclone Season started on November 1st.
You're a long way from home if you're up North and the Wet comes.
Especially if you're towing a Camper Trailer.
Probably best to save it for another trip and stay Southish for the Summer.

Wheaters,

In June this year after about 15mm of rain the Tanami was closed for a few days. The chance of rain in December is much greater. If you had to sit out the closure for however long it takes your carefully constructed trip plan would be literally washed away. Note also that there could be road closures anywhere on your route between Halls Creek and Kakadu.
Re your other option Alice to Birdsville, and then to Fraser(?) Island. Be aware that the Simpson is closed this summer, but maybe you intended going via the Plenty Highway. Even on that route there could be closures if summer rains fall.
You are cramming a lot of kms into a short time - sure you could drive it in the time you have available but would you really enjoy it? Also would be very hot and humid. I note too that you have just purchased a new camper - maybe a shorter trip while you get used to a new rig might be worth considering. Heaps to see and do, say by going to Fraser via inland NSW and returning along coast or vice versa.
Hope that helps, Cheers
Val.

Just over 4 weeks to go half way around the country and back again, literally? I think it's too much driving. You will spend the whole time in the car and not have much time for sitting back and relaxing.

I'm working in Wyndham now and it's stinking hot up here in the Kimberley, today it was 44 in Warmun, 42 in Kununurra and the maximum has barely gone under 38 the last 10 weeks! It's too hot to do much outside during the day and sleeping at night can be crap without an airconditioner.

Not to mention if you get half way across the tanami and it rains.....
Half way between Halls and Kununurra and a crossing is flooded...
A week spent stuck in one place would ruin your trip.

I would suggest you do a trip that requires half as much driving (or less) and take your time and look around. Recently we took 3 months to travel from Broome to Kununurra (many detours through the Kimberley) and the best part of the trip was spending 10 days at the one free camp site. The driving got on our nerves after about 1 week.

Barnesy

Yep re most of the above John - a high risk trip plan it would seem, in that you can easily get washed out with the wet season looming daily - also those top end high heat levels make remote bush road travel very risky in my view - a great trip though - we loved it, doing virtually the same trip in 06 over 5 weeks (bit tight re quality time, but doable), but ours was July - August !

You could be lucky and strike a hassle free trip where you don't get rained in, bogged or break down in very high temperatures.

There again, I could win Lotto without a ticket :))

Are you serious or having us on?
Your proposed trip is a very bad idea for all the reasons people have posted, and then some. Only a week's supplies? You get the tail end of a cyclone through some of those parts and you won't be moving for longer than a week. And there won't be any passers-by to help you out. The frequency of travellers having problems with breakdowns, gear failure etc in remote areas is somewhat masked by the fact that the majority travel when others are (not summer), so there is usually someone else around to help - and so does not turn into tragedy.

Ease up people, the roads get closed then open as quick as they shut. Its not advisable to do the trip then but its still possible, yes its hot and humid and there is the chance of a cyclone so if one comes you have to be prepaired to pack up and get the hell out of the area and i mean area, ie the kimberleys.
I have lived in the kimberleys for 4 years now and black top roads will only close due to high water crossing but they can go down in 24 hours, its just a matter of watching the height of the water and waiting if unsure. Dirt roads can be a different story tho.
It is still a long way to go in 4 weeks but ive done worse.

Hi Wheaters
I think you have had some pretty good advice on this subject. In these areas at this time of year, if you break down you might not survive, let alone putting others at risk to rescue you.
Have a look at the low pressure systems that are starting to form, may be getting lotz wet up there soon.
For a number of years i did a 30 day tour with a similar itinerary that you have planned, I found that being on the road most days, together with the heat, most people wilted.
I would suggest that there a number of very nice areas below the Tropic of Capricorn at that time of the year.

It is raining in the Centre now so if you want some off road experience make your destination no further than Alice Springs but be prepared to detour or camp in one spot if you get stuck. If you travel slowly and have a good look around such places as Mutawingie, Lake Mungo, Menindie lakes, Broken Hill and then the Oodnadatta Track, you will see a lot of the Outback without spending all day in the car.
Geoff