ayer creek bypass
Submitted: Wednesday, Jun 17, 2009 at 15:11
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a few questions, is the bypass still in place?
if it is, any idea when it wont have to be used?
is it sand/ hard going?
heading off across the simo in 5 weeks and want to know if to budget for extra fuel for the bypass,
has any one got any current conditions across
the desert,easier/harder than normal, or just normal;)
Reply By: Member - Mark C (NSW) - Thursday, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:00
Thursday, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:00
yeah mate heres the info u want.
we were at eyre creek on 6th june and back through on 7th june on return trip from
birdsville to
poeppel corner.
the bypass is definately still in place and by the depth of the water in the original
eyre creek crossing could be for months.
my son who is over 6ft walked through and it was near up to hisupper chest if he was female he would have needed a dry bra lets say.
muddy slippery entry and bottom. If closer to
home would have tried it but everything would get soaked and that MAN recovery truck in
birdsville lookes expensive to hire!!
the first half of the bypass is great 3rd gear stuff easy on the station track but the western half is just a track made through
the desert and becoming very rough 1st an 2nd most of the way back to main track. Allow three hours extra and about 60kms of extra fuel. No hard going or big dunes.
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