Simpson Desert Fuel Consumption
Submitted: Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:19
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Desert Lux
I am heading across the
Simpson Desert next week and would like to hear from people who have done the west to east crossing via French Line of their fuel consumption figures.
We are taking a 3.0D4D Hilux & Landcrusier 80 TD.
Reply By: Member - Scrubcat (VIC) - Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:48
Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:48
If you have not already done so it might pay you
check the road conditions ?
If you look at the road conditions link you will see that the QAA line , including Big Red, and the
Warburton Track are closed and may stay that way for several more weeks.
I can`t recall another way across to
Birdsville from the west, but I may be wrong.
Scrubby
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Reply By: Member - Stephen L (Clare SA) - Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:50
Sunday, Mar 29, 2009 at 22:50
Hi Desert Lux,
You will have to take double your fuel requirements, as the latest desert parks update, as
well as local information here on OE will have a complete crossing out for a very long time(like many months), as you will net get anywhere new Eyre Creek.. If coming from Dalhousie, you will have to head back that way to get back out.
All the best, as it is very early in the season and the dunes will be very soft and lots of them are blown over - means even more fuel to be used.
Cheers
Stephen
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Reply By: Ozrover - Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:43
Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:43
Hi DL, I spoke to the
Birdsville & Dalhousie rangers last week & they are estimating mid May before it's possible to cross to
Birdsville.
We have had a couple of groups go into
the desert in the last two weeks, one group only made it as far as the
Erabena track before looping back onto the
Rig road as they found the going pretty difficult.
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Reply By: Member - Ruth D (QLD) - Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:39
Monday, Mar 30, 2009 at 17:39
Hi everyone - minimum of 6 weeks I would say and then posibly flood detour to north maybe. Days are fairly warm 40'ish so evaporation is quite high.
Diamantina water is now down below 2m - so hard to believe when one day we are boating and suddenly the water is gone and river down to 'normal' level - still running.
Desert will be very tough - enormous sand blows on dunes and as not much rain out there (as far as we know) the dunes will be soft.
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Follow Up By: Ozrover - Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:14
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:14
Hi Ruth,
One group that went out from Mt Dare last week found that they could get over some of the dunes with difficulty, but couldn't get back over coming from your direction due to the sand blows.
The Prado rolled three tyres off the rims, the ford courier came back with a bent front drive shaft & the Sahara's electronics failed!
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