Timing of Cahills Crossing Arnhem land
Submitted: Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:47
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Red Power
Can anyone advise as to the time difference with low tide on
Cahills Crossing to that of
Darwin. Some research says add 5 hours and other up to 9.25 hours.
Appreciate any help, we want to put the final touches to our trip plan.
Reply By: Willem - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:49
Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:49
Red Power
About 2 hours plus
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Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Fred B (NT) - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 13:01
Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 13:01
Hi Willem, I got sidetracked so you beat me to it. How goes the laptop/gps saga?
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Follow Up By: Willem - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 13:14
Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 13:14
Hi Fred
Pretty much ironed it all out. Just had to get the stagnant
grey matter working again. Even managed to store some waypoints on the PDA this morning. Laptop to GPS still remains a problem but I am not going to spend more money on it.
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Fred B (NT) - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:57
Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:57
Go to this site; it does take a little getting used to, but you can work out a reasonably accurate time for most locations.
http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/
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Reply By: tonysmc - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 13:24
Reply By: Top End Explorer Tours - Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 14:40
Thursday, Mar 05, 2009 at 14:40
It varies between 4.5 to 5.5 hours, however if the tide is 6mts + what ever is over the 6 mtrs is over the Xing, I wouldn't cross the xing with more than .5mtr of water as it is possible to get washed off.
At the minute it is about 1.8 mtrs above and closed, and will be for another 8 to 10 weeks at least.
Cheers Steve.
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Follow Up By: Red Power - Friday, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:19
Friday, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:19
Thanks, I have the tide predictions for
Darwin for 31st july and by my calculations we would need to be at the crossing by 11am to be ready for the lowest flow. What are the roads like to the crossings, we were planning to
camp the night before at
katherine, but thinking now we should move onto ?
Pine Creek to get us at the xing by 11am.
All help is appreciated as we are first time travellors to Arnhen land.
Cheers
Margaret
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