Itenerary query. Victoria to Cameron Corner, Winton & Back

Gday Dave, carnt help much with times as I havent been there yet.....but we leave Tassie on June 5 and head on up that way.We head to Mungo, Kinchega before Broken hill and up to Camerons Croner, Innamincka, Birdsville and the like.May see you around.We have three months to do as we please so will be poking about for a while.

You can get from Mildura to Broken Hill, easily in 3 hours if you travel the Silver City Highway. There is a good caravan park a Wentworth. Also a good rest area at Lake Popiltah, about half way, with a loo and plenty of room.

If you follow the river, the road is sealed to Pooncarie, but after that its pretty well unformed to Menindee and if there is any rain it will be closed. There is a caravan park at Pooncarie, but I can't report on it.

Menindee has plenty of places to camp around the top of the lakes. Go to the Info. Centre & get directions.

A place worth staying at is Silverton. It has powered sites, or unpowered, and you can bush camp there. Small fee. It's an interesting place & a lot quiter than BHQ.

Four hours will get you to Tib. you need to use the S.C.H. as the track along the dog fence is closed to all traffic (it's private). Tib. has fuel & a c/park or else you can go to Sturt N.P. National Parks NSW have an office in Tib. Call in there it well worth a look.

From there to Cameron's Corner the road is not really good, stony in a lot of places. You can camp there, and there is a store on the Qld. side. It will probably take you two days to get to Winton from there. Half a day to L/reach. Going home - Longreach - Cunnamulla 1 day - Cunnumulla - Cobar 1 day - Cobar - Tocumwal 1 days - Toc -??. Pretty conservative estimates at my speed and buggering about.

Hope this helps.

Dick

Can't help you with the timing on your trip Dave; it will be a long one though. However the caches you'll do should be great. We're doing Brisbane, Broken Hill, Coober Pedy, Chambers Pillar, Mt.Dare, Simpson, Birdsville, Camerons and the Cooper end May early June. State of Mind (GCQ24Y) looks interesting and the Cooper Creek ones should be fun.

Have a great trip

Paul (AKA Nosugrefs)

G'day again Dave............I reckon you have enough time to do it with 'quality'. How about..........up to Innamincka via Cameron's and Broken Hill is straight forward - 3 nights at Innamincka would allow you to get a good 'taste' of that locality - the hop to BV can be done in a day via Cordillo (some would take 2, to add comfort) - 3 nights at BV would allow a 'taste' there too - up the Diamantina to Winton seems good (I've not done that leg yet) -Lark Quarry is a must IMV (amazing) - 2/3 nights at Winton might suffice for this trip (but we loved it there) - Longreach is a serious town and the Qantas Museum and S Hall of Fame are well worth the visit. We looped back to Adelaide via Isisford (banks of the 'old Barcoo'), Stonehenge (nothing there), Jundah ('pokey' town) on the banks of the mighty Thompson, Windorah (not so pokey :-o) .....loved it), down past Arrabury and into Innamincka through the back door.
The other way south from Longreach (our route going up that way) being Charleville, Cunnamulla and Bourke was ok, but not highly interesting for us......... BTW - that whole region around Winton was once under the sea - a lot of small 90M yo fossils can be found by the roadsides in some places (we did) - a bit of fun - the ranger at Lark Quarry gave us some tips on where to look.
Places east like Hughenden and Richmond etc have staff in tourist offices with similar advice. Have a good 'un...... what a top region up there !

Form Longreach, go home via Charleville (stay at the Evening Star - a farm about 8ks out of town to the north west), then 38k short of Cunamulla there is a farm called Nardoo - a great stop for the weary driver with a super natural hot spa. Go via Lightning Ridge (stay at the farm out near the airport - can't recall the name), then onto the Newell Highway home. A couple of days at each is ideal, but also good for a quick stop without the hassle of busy van parks.