Camper Trailer Trips

Gronk,

Thanks for reply. I guess my question is really, would you recommend taking he trailer?

JD

Me personally....no......but plenty have ( and do )

Bit like when we did the CSR last year. We left the camper at Capricorn Road House. Picked it up when we had finished. Headed out to the coast after that.

For anyone including the bottom section of the CSR, wells 2-5. This section passes through Cunya station and no trailers are supposed to be on this section there are signs stating this. I travelled through there with a group in October this year, one member of the group had an off road camper trailer. We got to well 5 and read the sign, well what do you do with the trailer now, can't leave it behind. Oh well we are miles from the station how will they know, we are only going straight through. Somewhere down near well 3 who should we meet heading up the track, you guessed it the station owner. Now the short story is that the owner of the Camper trailer got a good old serve. They were told the reason for no trailers on that section was due to the amount of people who have breakdowns, get stuck in the steep creek crossings and bogged after rain are forever seeking help from the Station. They are then required to go out and spend valuable time and resource's getting people out of trouble. The track through this section is very low lying and and becomes boggy with very little rain and there is plenty of evidence of many bogged vehicles in the past. I guess you have to see the station peoples point of view, they have no doubt had a gut full of people getting stuck with no option but to go many kilometres to get people out for no more than a thank you. We have to face the fact that people will go out there with no off road experience and no idea of what they are doing. They then get stuck in a very remote area, some, as pointed out by the station owner with small children in tow, a recipe for disaster. This doesn't mean you won't get stuck without a trailer, but as anyone who has towed a trailer through mud or soft sand knows it can be like dragging an anchor behind and the chances of bogging are doubled. Anyway thought I would pass this information on as there has been a lot of discussion on trailers and the CSR.

I thought there were signs advising that trailers were banned.

A little pre trip research would have provided the trailer info for Wells 1 to 5.

What he said.

My Trak Shak has been around a fair bit.

We took it to Cape York when everyone said not to, no problems. We took it across the Simpson when everyone said not to again no problems.

Reduce tyre pressures, take it slow and go easy on the right foot. If it spins a wheel back off.

In the Simpson we were mostly low range 2nd and 3rd. We travelled parts of the French, QAA and Rig and used about 130l of diesel in 600km.

Duncs