Monday, Apr 25, 2011 at 15:20
Anyone who suggests you take the south to north route, and I know it is suggested, is pointing you in the direction of the roughest way to do it.
It's only suggested and not mandatory and why it is recommended I don't know because coming north to south is far easier on vehicle, driver etc.
We specifically chose that direction because we then wanted to flow onto the Eyre Peninsula after it, so it suited us to do it that way.
Stephen from
Clare also suggested we take in the
Gawler Ranges/Buckleboo stock route just north of
Kimba so our route took us north through this area and then down south on Goog's. It worked for us and was a fantastic suggestion from Stephen who knows the area intimately.
We did it last October and it was an absolute delight.
There were wild flowers in abundance, including the sturt desert pea and there were many, many areas in which you could comfortably
camp.
The Goog's
lake overnight camp was great until we had this massive storm, but we survived.
If you do take the north to south and indeed whichever way you do decide to take monitor very carefully your UHF. We constantly made a call on the suggested channell (18, I think from memory) requesting contact on any traffic on the track.
We took 2 days to do it but you could easily take longer. In all that time we saw only 2 other vehicles and they were travelling together.
Strongly recommend the track, we (8 adults in 4 vehicles) all loved it.
cheers and happy travels,
Wayne
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