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Originally Posted by davidd
mate best to go with organised tour operator. this is a seriously difficult trip..you cannot do it by carrying fuel with you. you need to be with a group and organise entry permits to native title areas and fuel and food drops, on the way. as for the camper trailer, that will make it really interesting in heavy sand dunes. i cannot suggest strongly enough that you contact someone like tag-along-tours and talk to them about it. they will help you to see some of the problems. they won't even take people who are inexperienced and do not have a vehicle set up for the long and difficult trip. again DO NOT attempt this by yourself, you may just become another statistic added to the outback deaths list.
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Have you done the CSR? I don't mean to be disrespectful but... The JK is the only 4wd I have owned and, if I listened seriously to everyone who wants to be a scare monger, I may as well not have bought it, or alternatively, just stick to bitumen. What a waste that would be.
The scare mongers have told me, time and time again, never, on my own, to do the cape, travel across the top of the gulf, do the Tanami Track or the Gibb river Road or the Great Central Road or the Oodnadatta Track (done in a Magna S/w), or the Stryzlecki track or the Birdsville Track (also in a Magna S/w). Often, the scaremongers have never got far from a comfortable lounge chair, or so it seems.
And, if you take on board the scaremonger, "don't do it on your own" messages that are given out by the various 4wd magazines, you may as well sit in your arm chair and wait to die. Magazines, for the sake of keeping readership and sales, and their many relied on sponsors who sell often unnecessary "accessories", over-dramatise even the easiest tracks, in my observations.
Well, I have done them all, and on my own. Without exception, none have been that difficult. Of course I could make them more difficult and break lots of things, which seems pointless to me. I have only had to deal with punctures, which you have to expect and for which I travel prepared.
For me the journey is worth more than the destination. I thoroughly research trips before I leave on them. I make sure that the JK is in top condition with all the usual spare bits that could break and that I could fix... I don't take a garage with me because there is naff all you can do when the big things break. Youtube videos are great because they give a real time sense of difficulties etc. and of track conditions etc. They also let you know that many, many people do these trips on their own without a problem.I take plenty of food, water, fuel and make sure that I am able to be completely self reliant for at least 10 days, in addition to normal daily use of consumables. I usually avoid other people, because I get sick of meaningless roadside rambles, chats and rants and, anyway, I am out bush to enjoy and value the silence and aloneness.
Me... I am for living...I am still too young to wait around to die. I seize every moment. In my work I come across many guys, much younger than me who regret being "gunnas" instead of having been "doers". Unfortunately for a lot of them, this will be the rest of the story of their lives.
I have come across some tagalong and other tour operators in my travels and a good number of them are well worth a wide berth. I would not travel in some of their vehicles , even if I had to walk for miles.
So, do you want to tag along with me, or what?
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