We're taking our V6 150 across the Simpson this July School holidays. There's 1 other Amarok confirmed for the convoy and hopefully another V6 150 coming as well.
It'll be a West -> East crossing so we can have a go at Big Red (it's closed at the start of the holidays for the Big Red Bash, so we need to get there near the end).
Leaving from Adelaide the rough plan at this stage is to head through Oonadatta, fuel up at Mt Dare, spend a bit of time at Dalhousie springs, 3-4 days crossing on the QAA line, Big Red, Birdsville and the Strzelecki track on the way home. My wife has done a similar crossing before but it'll be my first.
I'm planning on hiring a satellite phone for the convoy at Mt Dare and dropping it back at Birdsville. I can borrow an EPIRB from an uncle who has a spare one - he carries 2 after getting stuck without one in the APY lands, waiting well over a week before being rescued and drinking from a stock trough when he ran out of water!
We're pretty well setup for the trip, I only need to buy some jerry cans and I'd like a spare wheel bag to keep the rubbish outside. The suspension has < 10,000kms on it and other than a steering column issue that I'm sorting out soon the car is in good health.
We'll be in swags and travelling relatively light but will still be close to GVM at the start of the crossing with the extra fuel and water on board.
I'm planning on bringing 2 x 20L jerry cans for 190L total. At ~20L/100km average on dunes this should be good for 800kms, which will get us across fairly comfortably. Does anyone think this won't be enough?
It'll be a West -> East crossing so we can have a go at Big Red (it's closed at the start of the holidays for the Big Red Bash, so we need to get there near the end).
Leaving from Adelaide the rough plan at this stage is to head through Oonadatta, fuel up at Mt Dare, spend a bit of time at Dalhousie springs, 3-4 days crossing on the QAA line, Big Red, Birdsville and the Strzelecki track on the way home. My wife has done a similar crossing before but it'll be my first.
I'm planning on hiring a satellite phone for the convoy at Mt Dare and dropping it back at Birdsville. I can borrow an EPIRB from an uncle who has a spare one - he carries 2 after getting stuck without one in the APY lands, waiting well over a week before being rescued and drinking from a stock trough when he ran out of water!
We're pretty well setup for the trip, I only need to buy some jerry cans and I'd like a spare wheel bag to keep the rubbish outside. The suspension has < 10,000kms on it and other than a steering column issue that I'm sorting out soon the car is in good health.
We'll be in swags and travelling relatively light but will still be close to GVM at the start of the crossing with the extra fuel and water on board.
I'm planning on bringing 2 x 20L jerry cans for 190L total. At ~20L/100km average on dunes this should be good for 800kms, which will get us across fairly comfortably. Does anyone think this won't be enough?
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