Balfour track, Tasmania

The sign actually say snorkles and winches required , travell in convey
Have done this in a GU and slideon myself and the track can be quite boggy One bog hole is about 70 meters long and the water is about bonnet deep. Don't try to go around the bog holes as the button grass can be worse. The boggy holes have a firm bottom. No problems for your vehicle but not a track I would do on my own.

Cheers Teza

Craig - Many thanks for your comments re the Balfour track. Can you tell me exactly which section of the track has the eroded sections and 70m bog? Doesn't look like the type of track we would consider with a brand new camper on board - the handbrake would have a meltdown! Cheers Alex

Alex when heading south from Temma the track winds it's way through the low coastal scrub starting to deteriorate from around Man's Creek south to the turn off. Continuing on down towards Sandy Cape from memory the track isn't too bad to Brookes Creek but the beaches past that can be very trecherous.
From the Balfour turn off the track is immediately eroded in places with a few minor bogs & side angles. We have done it twice in Feb (Dryest month), the 1st being wet as per the photo & the 2nd time we drove through without issue. Staying on the main track even if it has the deepest water is important as trying to drive around bogholes will only get you into bottomless black goo. I think the real mud started about 3 or 4 KM's along near the Dawson River. There is one side track that heads south to the summit of Mt Balfour & it has a couple of "very challenging" bogs including some on the ridge climb but what a view. It returns to the Western Explorer route just south of the Balfour turnoff.
A note on the 1:250,000 Tassie map sums it up. "Impassible in wet conditions".
The problem is on the west coast it can rain every 2nd day in the dryest month :-)
Cheers Craig.................