BUSHNUT
Well-Known Member
The road to Finke from Alice Springs is in the first part 2 wheel drive until you turn off to Maryvale so as to go out to Chambers Pillar. Returning to the Alice - Finke road from Maryvale check at the store for directions as it is not sighn posted, you cut across to the old Ghan line , the sand gets pretty heavy , so engage 4WD and put your pressures down to about 22 PSI , with a loaded vehicle , that seem about right.
Most of the time you are travelling on the old line as the railway had a good base for such a track and progress was quite good.
We camped about 60 KMs north of finke , had a ripper fire, the timber is bone dry .
We had spoken to a few that had come from Finke towing trailers, they would have guzzled the fuel doing that. One had put his vehicle on it's side, I didn't think the track was as bad as he made out, I would say speed may have had something to do with his incident.
1/. Wild camels, Royboy was out looking for a real cute one .
2/. One of many sidings . One for Ghallenglee, Bobby's little Challenger did it well !
3/. BSHNUT at the siding .
4/. On the Ghan line the bed that the railway engineers built was a very good base .
5/. Travel light and travel right, BSHNUT set ready for the night , 60 KM's north of Finke
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Most of the time you are travelling on the old line as the railway had a good base for such a track and progress was quite good.
We camped about 60 KMs north of finke , had a ripper fire, the timber is bone dry .
We had spoken to a few that had come from Finke towing trailers, they would have guzzled the fuel doing that. One had put his vehicle on it's side, I didn't think the track was as bad as he made out, I would say speed may have had something to do with his incident.
1/. Wild camels, Royboy was out looking for a real cute one .
2/. One of many sidings . One for Ghallenglee, Bobby's little Challenger did it well !
3/. BSHNUT at the siding .
4/. On the Ghan line the bed that the railway engineers built was a very good base .
5/. Travel light and travel right, BSHNUT set ready for the night , 60 KM's north of Finke
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