Glen Helen to great central rd

hi bob , thanks for the info we are well prepared but towing a camper trailer behind a 130 defender,
is there any deep sand and how do people go towing through this area ?
also hoe far is it from glen Helen to the turn oh to Sbjt?

Bob,
That sounds like an urban myth to me. I can find no mention of a Canadian death or any other traveler dying on the SBJT. Would you have any other info or date when it was supposed to have occurred.
Cheers
Pete

hi Mh , thanks for the reply , yes I think you are spot on with the directions and this sounds like the way we wanted to go!
we are heading to kalgoorlie so I thing gary hwy takes us too far north.
we were only going to warby for fuel . is there alternatives?

we don't have a sat phone or hf radio , just UHF , so don't want to go too remote !
my only real concern is sand bogged , or getting lost , are the main tracks well defined & marked and will a 130 defender towing camper be ok?

thanks

steve

Hi Steve

I would not take the Sandy Blight Road without having a satellite phone. It is one of the iconic Beadell tracks, but a journey on its own rather than a short cut. Friends towing went through a couple of weeks before our Gary Junction trip, and they were aware that a breakdown could cost them up to $20,000 in recovery of car and trailer. It took them three days, sometime down to 3 kph, and sometimes having to make their own bypass around a washout.

Having good fuel capacity, on the Great Central Road we fuelled at Yulara then again at Tjukayirla.

On the Gary Junction (travelling west to east) we topped up at Marble Bar, and again at Kunawarritji near Well 33 (which proved to be the dearest and Kiwikurra would have been a better choice), then again at Kintore.

Fuel is available at all the major communities although not all take EFTPOS or credit cards.

We were travelling with a satellite phone on both occasions, and did have breakages, but only used the phone on this occasion to report home to the family. It proved invaluable having the phone with a breakdown another time. A simple bolt breakage can leave you immobilised.

Mh

Yes thanks for the support , you sound like a typical Yalara advocate ,
Turns out i was correct in my judgment of the bleep hole called yalara or should I say Ayers rock as we Aussies prefer.
That cow that runs the mechanical repairs ( Pat) and her suck hole counterparts could not even be bothered helping us with a minor mechanical repair because the real owners of the business had instructed Pat the rat , that she was not to allowed to do any repairs whilst stocktaking , instead I had to spend $ 1000 + and lost 3 days to get the car repaired in Alice springs.
I would like for nothing more than her whomb to dry up and she gives birth to spiders!

Cheers
Tripitaka

maybe it was the attitude that did it for ya .. LOL

P.S it's Yulara with a U :-)