29-11-2014, 07:42 AM
Journey time depends on how long you want to drive each day. Some like 12 hours, we prefer 6 maximum. Either way you need at least a month away. Also, I do not know where you are starting from. The following applies to our journies from the Yarra Valley.
We have taken the Trayon on several Simpson trips, some via Birdsville. Last time we went that way it was a day to an excellent, grassy camp site at Robinvale (but do not take the free bus - tempting as it is - to some "Club", the name of which I have forgotten, across the river. Better off cooking in.) We had a cabin as we feared it would be cold but there are plenty of good spots. Site is hard to find if you use a GPS - so ignore it and just head along the main road to the border crossing at the river. Day two to Burra or thereabouts. The Black Sheep Italian café highly recommended, but Burra Cottages definitely not. Then it is two days to Marree, where there is a hotel, a pub, a campsite, and expensive diesel. The dirt starts several hundred kms short of Marree. You can then get to Birdsville in a day but Mungerannie is a beautiful stop half way (camp site on river - birds, including Brolgas, if you are interested) hotel. Big Red is easier than many, albeit lower, dunes!
Dalhousie a great swimming place but Mt. Dare not good - but little option.
We stay at the Big Four for a couple of days in Alice for a bit of a rest. Try to visit the Desert Park.
A spare spare is very re-assuring as some tracks, including the Birdsville are tyre threatening. Corrugations are often bad (people with wrong tyre pressures and/or trailers) and in places (e.g. Old Ghan track if you are on it) railway nails! Other spares depend on your ability to fit them. Fuel filter, air filter are two useful small bits. Our table went up in the air when I failed to see a pot hole and I destroyed the rear mudguard (Cruiser ute) when I reversed off a rock over my own mud flap (moral - pin them up or take them off).
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We have taken the Trayon on several Simpson trips, some via Birdsville. Last time we went that way it was a day to an excellent, grassy camp site at Robinvale (but do not take the free bus - tempting as it is - to some "Club", the name of which I have forgotten, across the river. Better off cooking in.) We had a cabin as we feared it would be cold but there are plenty of good spots. Site is hard to find if you use a GPS - so ignore it and just head along the main road to the border crossing at the river. Day two to Burra or thereabouts. The Black Sheep Italian café highly recommended, but Burra Cottages definitely not. Then it is two days to Marree, where there is a hotel, a pub, a campsite, and expensive diesel. The dirt starts several hundred kms short of Marree. You can then get to Birdsville in a day but Mungerannie is a beautiful stop half way (camp site on river - birds, including Brolgas, if you are interested) hotel. Big Red is easier than many, albeit lower, dunes!
Dalhousie a great swimming place but Mt. Dare not good - but little option.
We stay at the Big Four for a couple of days in Alice for a bit of a rest. Try to visit the Desert Park.
A spare spare is very re-assuring as some tracks, including the Birdsville are tyre threatening. Corrugations are often bad (people with wrong tyre pressures and/or trailers) and in places (e.g. Old Ghan track if you are on it) railway nails! Other spares depend on your ability to fit them. Fuel filter, air filter are two useful small bits. Our table went up in the air when I failed to see a pot hole and I destroyed the rear mudguard (Cruiser ute) when I reversed off a rock over my own mud flap (moral - pin them up or take them off).
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[size=medium]David & Marguerite
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