Laverton to Alice Springs
Submitted: Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:14
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Member -Paintar- Kalgoorlie
Hi All just travelled from
Laverton to
Alice Springs on Thursday and just a report on road conditions, the road from
Laverton to WA boarder was very good travel time around 10 hours and lots of road works happening. NT boarder to Ayers
Rock was in very poor condition lots of corrugation and deep sand on crests. Thousand of camels on WA side and the bush is looking a treat realy nice to travel good luck to all travelling it.
Regards Paintar
Reply By: Blaze (Berri) - Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:52
Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 09:52
"Travelled
Laverton to
Alice Springs on Thursday" You must have had the noise pedal down.. LOL Just joking mate just my sense of humour, thanks for info on roads.
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Follow Up By: Member -Paintar- Kalgoorlie - Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:48
Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 06:48
Sorry Blaze I should of said
Laverton to Ayres
Rock, travel time was
Laverton to Giles was 9hrs Giles to Ayres
Rock was 5hrs
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Reply By: D200Dug- Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 18:28
Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 18:28
Thanks for that we traveled the road about 8 years ago and found it in pretty good condition the whole trip. We hope to make the trip again next year.
What were you driving ? Did you tow anything ?
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Follow Up By: D200Dug- Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 18:30
Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 18:30
Last time we drove the road in a 2 wheel drive toyota ute and had no problems, we met about 20 Citroen 2CVs coming the other way. They were having a ball driving the rough road !
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Follow Up By: Member -Paintar- Kalgoorlie - Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 16:30
Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 16:30
Driving aTriton,
pic is in my profile from same trip from 20 months ago,towing anything is to much like hard work
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Reply By: Member - Min (NSW) - Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 20:17
Sunday, Apr 05, 2009 at 20:17
Paintar,
Many thanks for the info. We plan to travel that way in early September. I know it can change a lot in that time but hopefully other travellers will keep feeding road condition info about the major tracks because there's nothing like hearing from people who have travelled a road rather than relying entirely on 'road conditions' sites.
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Reply By: cobber - Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 13:02
Monday, Apr 06, 2009 at 13:02
We are doing the trip early July this year, so hope the road conditions are still good, then going on to
Winton and up to
cape york
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Reply By: MAVERICK(WA) - Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 at 14:33
Thursday, Apr 16, 2009 at 14:33
availability of Opal along the way???? rgds
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Follow Up By: Member -Paintar- Kalgoorlie - Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:48
Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:48
You can buy Opal at all communities along the way, i dont know the cost.
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