Alice Springs to Esperance

I would have thought that if a reasonable rout wasnt shown on a current map then it doesnt exist.
cheers

There is a road that goes through Kingoonya and comes out near Ceduna. It cuts off the Pt Augusta corner. No need to go to Adelaide.Then you would be going across the Nullarbor and depending on when you are travelling the whales may be migrating along the Bight. Turn left at Norseman and then round the coast to Perth.

Hi Grunta

You'll have to give more info;
I presume you're driving a vehicle you don't make it clear,
is it a 4Wd?
are you towing, if so what?
and so on
with this info we can probably provide a better answer

cheers

Hi. I suppose I'm almost an 'outsider' on this site. But I have explored Oz (Aus.)
and love it. I have done it with 'very basic equipment', not 4WD.
I have explored the majority of what this topic is about a few years back. I have a bundle of shortish, mixed quality video clips up on-line which may be of help to view.
The Kalgoorlie 'set' including the trip across to Uluru via Laverton/Great Central Road is here:



(WARNING. I was very fortunate with the weather as it can foul things up severely on 'The Great Central Road'. Check well first.)

From there one can ramble through the remaining video clips to look at my other Australian 'explorations', if so inclined, or go directly to my Esperance page, :



Good travelling with exploroz.com
Laurie.

Alice to Kal and Esperance.....
We have just done the 'Central Road", it runs almost in a line from Alice Springs to Laverton, it is a fantastic drive that takes you past Ayres Rock, Olgas and accorss some very nice desert country, that is the way i would go, it is a shortcut and well serviced, check it out on the "maps" ...... you will come down from Kal to Norsman to Esperance ... then the follow the coast around to Perth...........
Really no other way to do it..
Cheers
Joe

Since you are leaving from perth, why dont you head up the inland hwy - cut accross through sandstone then up to wiluna and do the gunbarrel to Alice, then return back along the great central rd via warburton and laverton? That is the way we were going to do it from Kalgoorlie when we looked into it earlier this year. If you really want to stay off the hwy, when you get to laverton, head to Kalgoorlie via Yarri rd then down to esperance.

Grunta,
Are by chance a Ulysses member? We have a branch in Alice now. What time of year are you planning this trip? Send a PM and I will give you some contact details for Ulysses in Alice. We would be interested in catching up with you in Alice if we are here.
Ross

Have just returned (2 days ago) . Perth, Wiluna, Gunbarrel, Heather, Great Central, Yulara, Mereenie Loop to Alice. Returned via old Ghan track to Finke, Dalhousie, Oodnadatta, Coober Pedy, Kingoonya, Wirrula, Ceduna and back across the Nullabor.
You can cut through to Ceduna (turn off Stuart Highway before Glendambo and cut through to Kingoonya) then travel either via Wirulla or Googs track. If You're on a bike, I wouldn't recommend Googs track. Neither would I recommend the Gunbarrel from Wiluna or the Anne Beadell from Laverton. Your best bet would be the Great Central Road
You will have to travel back across the Nullarbor but you can cut down to Esperance on the Balladonia track. (turn left just before the roadhouse)

No need to go through Adelaide. Straight down highway to Port Augusta and then turn right to Ceduna via Kimba etc. Otherwise as already stated turtn off highway south of Coober Pedy and go via Kingoonya down to Ceduna throughGawler Ranges. It's a few years since I went through there but the dirt road was quite good then.

Hello all. After more research, and more negative feed back( not so much on this site), Im starting to second guess my decision to travel from Perth to Alice in Feb on my bike. Logistically not a problem, its purely the temperature, and, because of the temperature, my safety. Upwards of mid 40s arent something that Im too worried about as such, as long as the bike is moving. Its if I breakdown, crash, etc, then the heat will potentially be causing me some health problems. I dont know.

The frustrating thing is that it seems to be a bad time of year for me to travel. Cant go up north, most likely too much bad weather, rain, roads closed etc and if i want to head inland as planned its too hot, cant win. I definitely dont want to do the south west, not my sort of thing, bores me to tears. What i really want issomething somewhat challenging, some dirt roads, although many sealed roads will obviously have to be used, remote is good, bush camping is a plus, if i can get to see a bit of nice coastline too, that would be a plus. I have 3 weeks to spare for this. I am currently looking at other options, possibly somewhere east of the line between Norseman and Esperance, Im sure there is a way through there somewhere, maybe heading down to the coast if it is viable, Cape Arid, cape le grand, even nuytsland reserve if it is viable.

Im just throwing ideas around, wondering if anyone has any info they would like to share. Thanks

For those of you who have done the Great Central Road, what are the conditions like when there has been some rain. Does it often get washed out, closed, does it just turn to sticky mud when its wet or is it a more a wet sandy type of surface. Also, does it dry out fast when it rains in the warmer months?. Thanks