Tanami Track Camping

We did almost the same trip July, August last year. We spent 1 night at Coober Pedy and 2 nights at Alice Springs and then spent one night on the side of the road along the Tanami.
I think the Tanami was a bit boring but that's me. But the whole trip was awesome, beautiful country the Kimberley. The Gibb River Road was not boring always something new or different things to see, loved it. We spent time in most of the places you mention. Broom was totally booked out (caravan parks) and we spent time living at one of the over flow parks Broom Pistol Club which was OK. The people running the Pistol Club were very friendly and helpful. Your going to love this trip it's a fantastic trip we also took 5 weeks. Of course it not long enough but that's all we could afford.
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We went over from Alice to 80 Mile Beach by the Gary Junction Rd and Kidson Track, which is a great road for most of the trip.

We came back by the Tanami and stayed at Wolfe Creek one night and about 10 kms East of Rabbit Flat the second night and onto Alice Springs the next day. Rabbit Flat is long closed now.

Wolfe Creek is only a couple of hours from Halls Creek, from memory.
I don't know how far it is from Broome, but it'd be a decent sort of drive.

Hoo roo,
Steve

Lloyd W1
We found the designated areas such as Renehan's Bore too open for our liking, and camped at Mt Doreen Ruins and Wolfe Ck when travelling between Alice & Halls Ck.

Driving from Bungle Bungles to Broome is possible, but a long day, depending where you camp at Purnululu - it's a long trip out to the highway if you camp in Purnululu itself. You could consider Fitzroy Crossing, but if you do that, you should really make the most of it by doing a tour of Geikie Gorge.

Our tips: 1) Don't give yourself too tight a schedule 2) try to book accommodation in Broome before arriving (I actually preferred the Police Citizen's overflow camping to Cable Beach Caravan Pk!)

Hi Lloyd,

Wolfe Creek to Halls Creek @ 2hrs
Halls Creek to Bungles T/O @80mins
T/O to Ranger Stn @ 2.5hrs
Domes to Echidna Chasm tours @ 5hrs ( running)
Bungles to Broome at least 10 hrs

Do yourself a favour and allow 2 nights in the Bungles. You will only regret missing such a tourist icon.
Maybe head to Kununurra and do the Gibb East to West.
Then head home via the Central Road. That way you do a counter clockwise trip and not be back tracking.

Hi Lloyd, we went from Halls Creek to Alice and planned to spend the first night at Wolfe Creek, but with plenty of day left continued on, spending the night on the WA side some way from the road in an old gravel scoop which had been camped in before. There were many similar looking spots. After enjoying the company of others for some week in the Kimberley, out there in the quiet so far from any other person it was a glorious and a very memorable night. The sunset was colourful. (Sorry add photo feature not working tonight).

On the NT side, there are a number of rest areas suitable for camping. We chose one towards the end of the day, and didn’t leave in a hurry in the morning, taking the time to do a bit of maintenance and check everything over after two days of severe corrugations.

Be sure to spend enough time at Purnululu. We spend the greater part of three days, with two nights there – one at each of the campgrounds, doing the walks early and late in the day to avoid the heat. The nights became very cold by morning. Due to a change in our original plan, we left the caravan at Kununurra. My blogs from 2008 cover the Kimberley and the Tanami.

Motherhen