Saturday, Jul 03, 2010 at 15:28
coming from the west to the east , we took the French Line until we turned right into Colsons Track. followed that and turned right onto the WAA line before turning left onto the
Rig Road.
Rig Road was alot slower going then previous tracks but not hard, just alot more humps and bumps to have to drive over, so alot slower going. out to The Lonely Gum Tree (which doesn't look lonely with all that vegetation out there) before heading straight up to the French Line again (will need to look up that tracks name sorry, runs parrallel with Knolls but to the west of it). wanted to do Knolls track but we were behind schedule time wise and needed to make up some time. French Line to Poeppel Cnr where the salt pan on the west side still has water in it and looks spectacular, can cross without a detour though which is good. plenty of water also on eastern salt pan at Poepple Cnr, follow along side that till you get onto QAA line and onto Eyre Creek bypass. Northern bypass tracks were very good condition either side of creek and water was lucky to be 400mm deep and an easy crossing.
Big Red still has water either side and has detours. western side will be a couple weeks and probably be dried up and crossable i reckon. i walked 3/4 of the way across the water and most was ankle deep, one section 3/4 of way up to my knee. detour left or right sides are short to get around that water.
eastern side has alot of water still and there will be detour for quite a while yet. detour track is slow going and bumpy, but not hard to do. adds about 1/2 hr to an hour to your trip depending on how fast you wanted to drive it and how much oncoming traffic you encounter.
li'd ove to post pics but have no memory left on our computer at the moment. i haven't even downloaded and looked at the pics on our camera yet myself, when i do i'll post some up.
cheers
RP
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