Shortened Plenty Highway trip?

Thank you, perhaps dumb question but with Georgina I assume you refer to the Georgina river since I cannot spot any Georgina location on my map or I am completey wrong?

Yes sorry that is the Georgina River a great camping spot did have water in it and plenty of bird life, spotted some bustards leaving there the next morning.

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Graham

Thanks again, since I really need to pay attention to the time I wonder how many hours drive you would estimate that it takes from Georgina to Alice Springs?
Also, would you recommend any must-sees along the road if I need to conserve my time and so need to be choosy where I spend the time? Thanks.

Anders,
Provided the road is in a similar condition as at the time we travelled it you should be able to drive to the Georgina River in 9 hours each way (Alice to Alice 18 hrs) that is not allowing stops for photos and other breaks. Looking at the photos we took we visited Gem Tree, there are things you can do there, camped at Jervois photo after Jervois with the Nissan and T-Van dwafted by a massive ant hill and various photos of plants and birds. We thoroughly enjoyed the drive and hope to visit there again, there was also very little traffic along there. Remember what someone may enjoy you may not, but if you like the 'outback' I'm sure you will enjoy it. Let us know with a pm when you get back your opinion of it.
Hope this helps

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Graham

I did Gem Tree resort to Boulia in a day (to beat the rain). Alice to Gem Tree is only another 140 kms, all on the bitumen so figure that one out. I left Gem Tree at about 6:00 am and was in Boulia by 5 that afternoon. (They closed the Plenty and the Donohue behind me and I was probably the last vehicle out).

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Well, I am back from the trip and made Alice Springs go Bolia and back in just four days which was a bit intense and in retrorespect fem or six days would had been more suitable. Going back the same way was not that fun and going a way around would probably have been better but considering this was my first time travelling in in the outback I think I did pretty well, a second time would probably be even better as I now know what to expect and could do better planning in advance.

Having said that, I still had opportunity to see very nice scenery that definately was an experience. However, I would say that the Queensland part was not as nice and in hindsight I would probably had spent my time more wisely in the NT part.

I was also positively surprised by the condition of Plenty Highway, I had assumed it would be quite bad but I had no problem keeping at least 90km/h for at least 90% of the road.

Well, I regret to say that I did not locate the Virginia river so is it supposed to cross Plenty Highway? In that case it must have been all dried up as I did not recognize it, on my map there was also a small location called Virginia but it was about 50km North of the highway and it was too late in the day to give it a try. Overall, pretty much everything seemed to be dried up to me.

Sorry, that should of course be Georgina and not Virginia river as it would have been rather unlikely to stumble upon that one. :)

There would have been a bridge over it and it would have been about 70 kms from Tobermorey on the Donohue highway sounds like it had dried up thanks for the info.

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