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  1. 18th April 2019, 10:58 AM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by weeds View Post
    I’m guessing no, based on the difficulty of booking into options in and around Broome, you’d have cast of thousands camped on the beach.
    Meh. Probably right. As usual, people, people, people...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Finnius View Post
    Meh. Probably right. As usual, people, people, people...
    When I was in broome with my dad we opted for a hotel room over sealing with camping/caravan spot......made it a decent break.
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    Trouts mention of Port Smith brought back memories of me nearly needing a blood transfusion there after getting out of the D1 and grabbing a palate cleansing ale from the Engle, in the back. Talk about vicious little flying bities!
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    Can't see why you couldn't access the beach, drive away from the hordes and camp in the dunes. Long time since I was there though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saitch View Post
    Trouts mention of Port Smith brought back memories of me nearly needing a blood transfusion there after getting out of the D1 and grabbing a palate cleansing ale from the Engle, in the back. Talk about vicious little flying bities!
    I've been thinking about ways to keep the mozzies at bay on the trip. Down south here you get a few mozzies when camped near water - so i always have some mozzie spray and a few repellent candles and coils in the landy. But i expect the mozzies to be a lot worse up north.
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    Quote Originally Posted by weeds View Post
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    It's all good, i am slowly compiling a list of tracks and destinations in an effort to get away from tourists!

    There are a few places on El Questro to visit too. Anyone know if the tracks on the station are super busy - explosion gorge track, saddle back ridge track?
    I have a feeling every family and their Landcruiser Prado staying at the station campgrounds will go up them...
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    Are the corrugations on the Tanami track as bad as people say they are?
    I'm not too keen on using it as a 'shortcut' if it's hundreds of kilometers of corrugations...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Finnius View Post
    Are the corrugations on the Tanami track as bad as people say they are?
    I'm not too keen on using it as a 'shortcut' if it's hundreds of kilometers of corrugations...
    That depends entirely on how long ago the grader went through. Our first trip through there, the grader was just starting out as we turned on at the northern end. So it was rough-ish. The first couple of hundred km at the northern end, out of Halls Creek, are over-used by vehicles coming down to the Wolfe Creek crater. From there down to the Granites is pot luck, and from the Granites down to Tilmouth Well takes all the gold mine road trains so is well maintained. Southern 200km is mostly bitumen. If you were to go south via the Gregory NP, the track from Kalkarinji south through Lajamanu and down to Rabbit Flat sees only two or three vehicles a day so is generally smooth, although I think you're supposed to have a permit to go that way.
    A lot of people say the Tanami is a boring thouroughfare but I have always enjoyed it.
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