GUNBARREL HWY PERMITS

No trouble with a permit for that section in 2007, Alan. You just need at least 2 vehicles and some communication means, eg sat phone. (though it's really no more difficult or isolated than the rest of the Gunbarrel).

Cheers, John

They sell fuel at Giles? News to me..

This "dh who ran the show" as you call him, if he had "someone" ask him "who are you?" with contempt after he had asked that "someone" to produce a permit, then surely he would be in his right to deny that "someone" fuel if he so chooses.

Replace "someone" with "DH" as appropriate.

ok if you have to be pedantic it was warrakuna roadhouse next to giles weather station. they did sell fuel in 2002 . I dont know about today.
if you had read my reply you would have seen i was not asked on this occassion to show a permit . the DH wrongly assumed I didnt have one when I sought unleaded petrol ( evident by his comment)
in this situation I volunteered the permit which had a note about the withdrawal of unleaded fuels in that area but stated they had unleaded.
He was happy to sell me avgas but i made the decision to go elsewhere due to his arragant attitude.I was not dependant on his fuel and had a preference for unleaded over avgas which is why i was initially going to fuel up there rather than warburton which I knew only had a mixture ulp/avgas.


gets back to the basics that it was none of his business if i had a permit or not.
he wasnt a copper, a ranger or a tribal elder from what i could see.

His attitude is what has seen me adopt my approach of show me your credentials first before I'll show you mine.

BTW you didnt use to run a roadhouse by any chance.

cheers
howard

As you would know Howard the permit gives you alot of general info including fuel availability. The fact you applied 4 months in advance made your information outdated by the time you arrived. Not really the fuel attendants fault but no doubt he wrongly assumed you were like the many others he's had to deal with before that had not taken the time to get a permit at all.
Cheers Craig.............

No, never run a Roadhouse, however you see some bargains come up from time to time....

Are you sure Mick, looks very thin compared to you. ;-))))

I thought he did a typo and it should of said "the Truck on the left is mine" hehehehe

Harsh Peter....but fair. A mere strippling of 21 years my friend. If only the intervening years equalled the number of kilos I'd added. Bugger, I'd be in my sixties LOL. I reckon I've stuffed up the location. It's actually at Wiluna I think. The guys in the truck were heading east to do the Gunbarrell. My how things have changed. Who'd put a 1.8 litre petrol motor in a 4x4 of any description these days?

Mick

Jeez!! I'm with Peter on this one. :-)

Your correct in stating that the GCR is a transit road to get you from point A to point B. The purpose of the free permit, from what I can gather, is to tell you where you can and cannot travel while on the GCR.

An earlier post talked about visiting communities along the way (such as Warburton). The permit I had made it clear that I was not to travel off the GCR into Warburton which is an indigenous community and that the same applied to all communities along the way. If I did want to visit the Warburton commmunity I would need to apply for a special permit.

This way if you do veer off the beaten track you don't have the half arsed excuse that you 'didn't know'.

It's a good system, it's free and it works until some idiot decides to 'test the waters'.

Hi
Can I ask were and by who checked your permits. Like everyone above, we have never been asked, but have always had them.


Cheers

Stephen

South Australian Police on the first section of the original Gunbarrel Highway between Mulga Park and Warakurna

hi all,thanks for the info.have found the permit applications on line,makes sense to get them and keep everyone happy cheers.