Simpson Desert Feedback

Cheers Brian. Thanks for that. How were the day and night time temperatures?

Mick

I can only imagine the dficulty you encountered on some parts on the WAA.
We were with two other vehicles in July heading east along the WAA line and they had so much trouble they threw in the towell and headed back down to the Rig road. Who knows why but they just could not get over that handful of big ones.
Dean

Greetings all,

We also have recenlty returned from a west-east crossing of ths Simpson desert travelling the Rig road and Knolls track and then onto the French line with a small diversion at Eyre creek to bypass a very boggy section, our intention was to do the Warburton track but this was closed does anyone know if it is still closed?.

Cheers

Hi Mick,
Day temps were from low 30s up to low 40s. I remember seeing the Prado outside temp at 44C at one stage. Over nights were generally low to mid 20s. I don't remember having any trouble sleeping from being cold, expect for the Flinders Rangers, which was damn cold. I also remember being intrigued by my wife telling me of the difference in weather conditions from up north to down in Melb. Also should point out that we had 3 major blows whilst away, the worst being visibility down to tens of meters (thank God for GPS!).

Dean,
The surprising thing was that the short wheel based Jeep did the best of the lot of us. I suppose being lighter helped alot as it never got stuck. But then being the shorter wheel base they were also the ones complaining the most about the conditions, how rough it was.