Halls Creek to Wiluna via CSR ? Not Possible (Never has been)

Hi Tony
I understand what you are saying, though I am merely stating that it is not possible to travel the CSR from Halls Creek. I am not making any comment about anything else here, just about the CSR and where is actually starts and ends.
Cheers
Marc

Hi Marc

Be careful. Facts have no place on this forum... :-)

Does it realy matter.

Last time I went to Surfers when asked which way I was coming home to Canberra, I said via the Pacific highway. Not one person questioned it.

But when you consider that the Pacific Highway terminates in Sydney and does not come anywhere near Canberra then I was inaccurate. But who cared.

Same with the CSR. If someone was to say that they drove from Wiluna to Halls Creek via the CSR it's obvious that the Tanami had to be used as were the Hume and Federal Highways were used on my return to Canberra.

One day I hope to drive from Canberra to Canberra via the CSR. That is a fact.

Phil

Hi Alan

I know the road you are talking of, but I am actually talking about the Canning Stock Route. I live in Mulan, we frequently travel through back tracks to the Canning Stock Route, then up to Billiluna, on to the Tanami and into Halls Creek.

There is another parallel road, which comers off the Tanami, through Madigan Station, and down to Christmas Creek (Wangkatjungka Aboriginal Community) and Bohemia Downs Cattle Station (which has Kuptiya Aboriginal Community on their land).

I have done both roads on numerous occasions.

Cheers

Marc

Might have gone through to the keeper that one!!!! I'm only stirring the pot Marc - don't worry about me!!!

Cheers Alan, have a great day. Marc

I THINK you are saying Telfer is spelt wrongly???

I have no idea what your last paragraph means, sorry.

Cheers Neil

G'day Neil

I trust you won't be offended with my reply because I do not send this reply with malice.

So you think Telfer is spelt wrongly ~ well mate anyone who desires to travel to the Rudall River National Park or to any part of the Great Sandy Desert ~ will KNOW instantly that they have spelt Telfer incorrectly.

My point in inserting the actual image and the "mis-understood" paragraph is to highlight how easy it is for mistakes to be taken as being correct.

The mega dollar information bay is brand new, costing a grand total of $216000 the information portrayed for the travelling public to read and possibly make use of in their journey away from this point, has some glaring mistakes.

The mere fact that so much money is spent on an establishment that is supposed to aid the tourist/traveller on a safe journey, has been built and made open for the public to use and NO ONE in the brains trust that conjured the whole idea up and possibly saw it through to its opening, took the time to check to see if all the information was 100% correct ~ simply staggers me.

If the incorrect information is allowed to remain unchanged or unchallenged, this incorrect information may well become accepted and passed on to be true and correct and it just might be the insignificant little thing that changes the history of Telfer at some point in the distant future.

The incorrect spelling of Telfer is purely an example, I could have uploaded more images of klangers and there are several that are more relevant to the rate paying householders who actually call Newman home, but I know they will simply shake their heads with disappointment or possibly even have a good laugh because they know how this towns "Luminaries" operate.

Safe Travells :

Phil,
You took the words right out of my keyboard

If the powers that be built a four lane highway (unlikely..lol) from Halls Creek to say well 50 with a roadhouse at the well 50 end would this mean that now the CSR starts at well 50. Maybe to some but to me the CSR as it was originally constructed (if that's the right term) is what constitutes this iconic track.


Cheers
Pop

Hi

Just for fun here is a map showing the gazetted stock route from Old Halls Creek to Billiluna..Image Could Not Be Found

Cheers
Greg

PS: Basemap is Hema Great Desert Tracks - Nth Central over which I have laid the CSR boundary.

Thanks Greg
The scale of my maps didn't let me show the detail as this one does.

This nicely shows the easement following the line of pools, hence no need for Canning to construct further wells.

cheers

I know the pastoral map of W.A. and it shows the Canning Stock Route goes up the lakes as Phil B says, up through Sturt Creek,Flora Valley and then heads North West through the Ord River Regeneration Reserve and then to Halls Creek. Stll shown on map dated August 2011.

Hi to all of you involved in this discussion, I hope this finds you well.
It's totally incompressible to see reason for the cost of that sign of misinformation, even if it was correct Spelling.
There is a very good joke on the E.O. Friday funnies !
It highlights the effect that misspelling in history can cause chaos in the future!!
I love it but can't think of its title.

It involves new Monks having to check records for mistakes.
We aren't going to get into a religious , pot stirring or indecent debate!
It's just a good laugh & laughter is the best medicine!

Marc, we didn't catch up with Kevin but we think we may have passed him on way to McGowan's Island.
It turned out to be a very rushed trip but well worth doing. Things were hectic where he lives. Thanks anyway.
Take care, safe travels.
Bye for now, Ma.