Darling River run in 2 weeks??

Hi JS,
I too will be doing the darling river run in July with my 80 year old father.
The trek notes on this site say that it would only take two days in total to drive so the distance is not great.
We will be meandering and taking a side trip to White Cliffs and reckon we could do it comfortably, allowing 2 night stops for sight seeing and fishing every now and then.
I gather because of the school holiday time frame you will be travelling with kids, if thats the case a first days travelling to Dubbo and a trip to the zoo might be an option, an easy run up from the big smoke.
Set up camp on the first night a day at the zoo second day and a run up to Bourke or Brewarrina on the third day.
I wouldnt have thought the travel involved would be much different from last years trip.
Any way enjoy the trip, might catch you up there,
Will

Hi Dave,
I totally agree that 2 days is no where near long enough.
I was quoting the miniminal time needed to travel the route, that is listed on this sites Darling river run trek notes.
I myself am allowing 2 weeks for the trip.
My point in quoting the 2 days travelling was to indicate to JS that the distance involved was not great, so allowing for the time restraints of the school holidays, and his home location in Sydney, the trip should be an easy one.
I will be travelling with my wife (the English Rose ) and my daughter ( the little Princess) in our Jackaroo and my father and his wife in their Prado.
As I have said earlier Dad is in his 80th year and his big trips are behind him now, so we will be taking it easy and setting up camp early.
With early camp set up we are hoping to be able to do some camp oven cooking, with time being not so much an issue.

Will

You can drive the distance in two days. but you won"t see anything .. so there would not be much point. My wife and I did it in 10 days out of Newcastle, and saw almost everything ... and it was a nice easy pace. So you will do it in two weeks. Three would be better.

Jack