Driving the Great central Road

Hi Doug,
Appreciate the response, what makes the trip unsafe? And why only unless absolutely necessary? Temperature, rain?
By enjoyable you obviously refer to temperature I suspect, or is it hat the road doesn't get graded at this time of year are the corrugations particularly bad?

Sorry to keep probing for an answer but many people have told me not to travel then, but everybody who tells me this has been told by the best friends next door neighbours aunt, anybody done the trip at this time of year?

The worst is just the screaming mind numbing damaging heat.

It just makes everything difficult and uncomfortable and if the slightest thing goes wrong then it becomes dangerous.

I have been out there at those times of year and it was just pretty awful. My son was deployed out there with both the army and WA police and he tells stories of those who went out there unprepared for the emergencies that can and do happen.

It is beautiful and a really great trip during the cooler months and just an endurance test for people and vehicles in the hot seasons.

Why bother to do stuff like that for a holiday ? Wait till you can travel in the cooler months and enjoy the trip.

Getting burns on the soles of your feet from the ground through boots is never fun.

Hi Doug,
Perfect, thanks very much for the comprehensive response that was all I wanted. Great, Ta

I can vividly remember a victim of a road accident out there receive 3rd degree burns from the road surface before they could move her.

She had been hit by a car and lay on the hot road surface, with a fractured pelvis and leg injuries. Moving her before she was stabilized was very dangerous but leaving her where she was would have been fatal.

That is the kind of conditions!

Hi Craig,
Thanks for the response, based on what Doug and yourself have told me we'll leave this until the cooler months. We'll have to find somewhere else now, Cheers