Yep......we made it through!
Submitted: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 at 21:26
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Thanks to everyone who offered advice on whether we would make it through some of the roads in NW SA on my thread a few days ago. We made it through safely and with the 24' Van intact.
Our route was from
Roxby Downs we went across the Borefield Road and hit the
Oodnadatta track at Bowpeechy where we turned left towards
William Creek. This road was pretty good but we had to be alert to slow right down on the rutted and rougher sections.
The Oodnadatts track through to
William creek was the best part of the whole 700km of dirt we travelled on, but again we had to slow down for some ruts and for creek crossings and floodways.
From
William Creek to
Oodnadatta was the roughest part by far, it took us about 6.5 hours to travel the 240km from Strandways
Ruins which was our
camp spot the night before. We averaged about 40km p/h and spend some periods of upto half an hour doing only 20kph.
The road from
Oodnadatta to
Coober Pedy was good today although we didn't travel all of it as we took the route through
the painted desert which was very good in placed but pretty rough in other
places especiall a couple of creek crossings, all very passable though if you take your time.
We had a great time and the kids will always remember the real "outback" adventure.
There was very little other traffic on the
oodnadatta track, especially yesterday when all we saw was 3 cars all day.
cheers
dave