Sunday, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:08
Willem,
We went west through
Silverton, onto private land (with approval) crossed into SA,
well below Broughams
Gate, headed north until the
dog fence veres off to the west, passed through this, and then followed a very faint track north on the S.A. side of the border fence.
Access into S.A. is at each 'house', (where the maintenance people reside, forget how far apart these are, something like 70km), but it doesn't do you much good. The gates are not locked, but the closing thing is
well indicated. The owner of "Frome Downs", the land you pass through if you want to travel from
Hawker's
Gate to the northern Flinder's Ranges, prohibits people from using the road.
When I worked here I had approval to use the access road along the fence, and on my quarterly visits to
Tibooburra, we would usually go out to the corner,
camp near there, and then head
home by following the
dog fence. Sometimes, for a change we would swing off into S.A. as there are station roads (not Frome Downs) and if you didn't miss the track near bores, you came out at
Cockburn. I won't say we got lost lost, as we knew where we were, but the track was pretty faint & around bores it would be obliterated. It wasn't hard to miss it, so we used to go south across country until we hit the S,.A. part of the
dog fence and then find a
gate, and voila.
All good stuff
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