Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 13:36
We have just come back from there Ben and were there by ourselves, simply been to busy building a new car to write it up though.
Personnally , overall I found it a very easy place to live with and play on.
We stayed at Birbui beach which is at the top end. There is a lifesaving type club building which has a cappicino
shop overlooking the area and its quite nice to sit there and take in the surroundings.
View from
shop is
rock fishing to north , sweeping round to surfers catching waves to NE , then looking east to special area for horses with trotting carts , then looking SE to the 25km of easy beach run down to wreck and Tin city.
RAV4's abound on
the beach side which easy and picturestque.
The strip of play sand is roughly 1km wide from the shore and height of the dunes rises away from the shore.
There is no vegetation and sand is soft but hard to get stuck in.
Lovely small and bigger hills to power up and down, and if you go midweek on a $10 3 day pass out of hoiliday season as we did , then you can find yourself high up on a dune with great
views and not another car in sight. This was best part for us.
No one around , just nosing into dunes playing with them and the car.
We had a brand new Patrol and did this trip as we didn't want to scratch it just yet.
The only real issue is that it can be hard to see a drop off (very hard actually) , so its best t0 kept the speed down.
We mostly were only doing about 20kmh.
We took up a suggestion from another member here on doing a half day tour up front so we got to know the area.
Never done this before , but with only 2 other cars in convoy , we got to experiment a lot and was money
well spent (think $150 www.4wdtour.com.au).
This guy drove a manual petrol Prado , and I thought at first that this was going to be weak but before the end of day I was sweating on not trying to look like an idiot as he sure knew how to drive.
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Follow Up By: benting88 - Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 17:31
Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 17:31
Thanks for the suggestions Robin,
Unfortunately we're going there on a weekend, so I would imagine it'd be pretty packed with 4wd'ers and holidaymakers.
I'm interested in those
tag along tours that you suggested- I noticed there were two on offer, one of 'Tin City' and the other to the shipwreck.
Which one did you do?
I was planning to do the Tin City tour, then go and explore the wreck by ourselves afterwards.
I can't wait to try out the mk triton on some dunes- hopefully I'll be able to keep up with the prado...
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Follow Up By: mikehzz - Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:38
Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:38
I did the tour with the Prado guy and he is indeed a damn fine driver. One of the group got into a pickle with a Challenger that lost 4wd and he drove it out quite skillfully in 2wd. The owner bogged it a number of times before handing him the keys and was amazed at how he didn't get bogged as
well. And it wasn't even his car. Mike
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:54
Monday, Nov 29, 2010 at 19:54
Tin City we did Ben , and if you could it would be worth making the effort to go a day earlier , book ahead , and get in before the rush , as per Mike's comment , you will & I did learn something (
bute force power and petrol - can let a less competent driver keep up with someone who knows what he is doing.)
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