PP GTG Travelling Buddies

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Mav,
just wondering if this list if up to date or if there have been any deletions and/or additions? I am particularly interested to find out if there is anyone from Adelaide travelling up to the GTG who would be looking for a travelling buddy who is not listed in your original post.

Regards

Gary

Hey Gary,

Your pm totally slipped my mind, apologies.

Unfortunately i'm not going to the GTG, still heading to Alice and there abouts at the same time but with a group of families from the kids school.

We are leaving early on the morning of Friday 3rd, calling in at a sheep station North of Glendambo, then stopping the night at Copper Pedy. The rest of our group are meeting us in CP Saturday night, then we all head to the rock on Sunday.

You are welcome to join us for the Adelaide to CP stint if you like.

Cheers Adam

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Mav,
just wondering if this list if up to date or if there have been any deletions and/or additions? I am particularly interested to find out if there is anyone from Adelaide travelling up to the GTG who would be looking for a travelling buddy who is not listed in your original post.

Regards

Gary

Sorry for not responding earlier Gary, unfortunately I only had names to take off the list thanks in part to the economic down turn. I believe our car count is now down to 35. We did at one stage have closer to 45 but that is the way of things I guess, sometimes life gets in the way. :wink:

Anyway I have updated the list and deleted the names that are no longer joining us. Fingers crossed no more pull out I suppose.

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After having a bit of chat in our chat room and GTG date getting closer it became apparent
that people would like to know what other people's iterinaries loook like so
that they can choose to tag along for some part of the trip...

So I am putting down my trip plan down here :mrgreen:

If anyone wishes to tag along after GTG just PM me.

Day1 - Saturday 4th of Ju;y 2009 Arrive to Ross River Resort
Day2 - Sunday 5th of Ju;y 2009 Ruby Gap Trip
Day 3 - Monday 6th of July 2009 Ross River - Alice Springs - Palm Valley, Camp at Palm Valley
Day 4- Tuesday 7th of July 2009 Palm Valley - Boggy Hole, Camp at Boggy Hole
Day 5 - Wednesday 8th of July 2009 Boggy Hole - Kings Canyon - Camp at Kings Canyon
Day 6 - Thursday 9th of July 2009 Kings Canyon - Uluru, Camp at Uluru
Day 7 - Friday 10 th of July 2009 Rest Day Uluru
Day 8 - Saturday 11 of July 2009 Uluru - Kings Canyon
Day 9 - Sunday 12th of July 2009 Kings Canyon - Glen Helen Resort
Day 10 - Monday 13th of July Glen Helen - Alice Springs
Day 11 - Tuesday 14th of Julty Alice Springs - Rest Day
Day 12 - Wednesday 15th of July Alice Springs - Coober Pedy (via Henbury Meteorites)
Day 13 - Thursday 16th of July Coober Pedy - Port Augusta
Day 14 - Friday 17th 0f July Port Augusta - Mildura
Day 15 - Saturday 18th of July Mildura - Melbourne

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I'll actually be travelling to the PP GTG from South Australia :shock: . That's because we are doing the Oodnadatta Track and a Flinders Ranges excursion beforehand (with a stopover in Wilmington with the in-laws) - well you've got to make the most of things! :wink:

After the PP GTG, we'll be stopping over again in Alice Springs for two nights before returning back to Darwin along the Stuart Highway, probably over two/three nights, including a night at Mataranka. So our PP GTG travel plans are:

Between 20-30 June: Oodnadatta Track (North to South) and Flinders Ranges via Wilmington
2-Jul Wilmington
3-Jul Painted Desert
4-Jul Ross River
5-Jul Ross River
6-Jul Alice Springs
7-Jul Alice Springs
8-Jul Rainbow Valley
9-Jul Yulara
10-Jul Yulara
11-Jul Alice Springs
12-Jul Alice Springs
13-Jul Banka Banka
14-Jul Mataranka

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Strange, I thought I had posted in here before about this but I can't make the GTG due to work commitments. A project is starting up beginning of June that will keep things pretty busy for a while. Not sure how much of June I'll be in Adelaide.

I know I've sent an email through to Mav to inform him of this and he responded but I'm still on the list of attendees

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Strange, I thought I had posted in here before about this but I can't make the GTG due to work commitments. A project is starting up beginning of June that will keep things pretty busy for a while. Not sure how much of June I'll be in Adelaide.

I know I've sent an email through to Mav to inform him of this and he responded but I'm still on the list of attendees

Fixed - Sorry

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OK the Chester group of 4 is doing the following Pm if you would like to join or meet up

28th June Leave Melb for Port Augusta 2 days travel
Then up the Oodnandatta either all the way or cut across to Cooper Pedy
Arrive at Alice for the 4th

Making a bit up as we go along i.e just driving each day till sick of it or find something interesting.

I have spent the last year chained to a diary for a work project so i need a bit of make it up as i go along

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OK the Chester group travel plans have been finalised and are as follows let me know if we can hook up somewhere along the track

Leave Melb 27th June Sat
Work our way through melbourne heading though the guts of VIC stopping Halls Gap first night then on to Renmak in SA for the second night Then Port Augusta
Arrive Cooper Pedy on Tues 30th June
We were then planning to go on the Odnadatta track on the 1st July and spending a night or two doing the loop from Cooper Pedy via Odnadatta Dailhousie Springs to Marla
The heading straight up to Alice

If we like the track we were planning on doing the whole thing on the way back thendown to Adelaide to do the coast and great ocean road on the way home arriving back in melb on Sat 18th July

Any and all travelling companions are welcome and i am flexible within reason to meet the needs of a group if it develops

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That seems like a top trip Chester.

See you at Ross River.

Jeff.

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Our route to the GTG

Leave the Hunter Valley sometime on the weekend of 20th-21st June
Gawler Ranges
Googs Track
Oodnadata track
& if time permits, follow the old ghan line into Alice via Chambers Pillar

If we run out of time on the way to the gtg, we will do Chamber Pillar to Oodnadata on the way home.
& swinging by lake eyre at some point to see if we can see any of the water.

I havent got any set time frame or dates at this stage, if any one else wants to join us for all or part of the trip let us know.

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Oodnadata track
& if time permits, follow the old ghan line into Alice via Chambers Pillar

Yota

We'll be in the area at about the same time, so you might be able to join us if time permits...

Day 7 - Tuesday 30th of June 2009
Rest Day at Dalhousie (Hot) Springs.

Day 8 - Wednesday 1st of July 2009
From Mt Dare on to Finke, camp at Lambert's Centre of Australia

Day 9 -Thursday 2nd of July 2009
From Lambert's Center to Chambers Pillar via Old Ghan Railway Track

Day 10 - Friday 3rd of July 2009
Travel from Chambers Pillar to Alice Springs

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Well I have had a couple of people who have had to pull out in th last two days and I am expecting one more will be a no show as they have not been in contact for sometime now, I have tried numerous ways to contact them but all to no avail so I am pretty much not expecting cruisin80 to show. If anyone knows how to contact this member could you please pass on to him that I would like him to get in touch to verify his attendance or not?

So at the end of the day I think we are down to 30 cars now unless more people drop out in these last few weeks, I really hope that does not happen.

Cheers

Mav

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Mav,

Is there an updated travelling buddies list?

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Mav,

Is there an updated travelling buddies list?

Hi Steve, the list on the first post of this thread is the current list and has everyone on it I beleieve including you now. :lol: