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On Australia's Longest Shortcut |
The trip along the Outback Way on the 6th & 7th August 2011 was fabulous as always. We left Alice Springs at 5am and were travelling well until some airborne side cutters from a passing ute punctured our back tyre- fortunately we had 2 jacks and some skill on board so with the tyre changed we headed off towards what would be an amazing sunrise at Gem Tree.
Harts Range crept out of the landscape to present itself in full sunshine- it always is an awesome view- the flat landscape and then the range.
For updated road condition go to"The Drive" page on menu( left margin on home page) and scroll down to Road Conditions.
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The Outback Way- UPDATE JUNE 2011 |
Mining Exploration
Firstly the increase in mining exploration and opportunities in the Musgrave Ranges by- Musgrave Minerals, Musgrave Minerals will have the leading exploration land holding in the Musgrave Province with interests covering approximately 50,000km2, equating to approximately 5% of the State of South Australia. The Musgrave Province is considered highly prospective for intrusion hosted nickel copper sulphide deposits within the Giles Complex – one of the largest layered mafic to ultramafic intrusives in the world.
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The Outback Way extends 2,800km from Laverton, Western Australia to Winton, Queensland via central Australia. As a self-drive route it passes through central Australia’s deserts, Ayers Rock, The Olga’s, Alice Springs and a host of fascinating places of interest.
The Outback Way is made up of seven inter-connecting roads including The Great Central Road (WA); Tjukaruru Road, Lasseter Highway, Stuart Highway and Plenty Highway (NT); and Donohue Highway and Min Min Byway (QLD). Collectively these are THE OUTBACK WAY.
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The Outback Highway Atlas - a real guidebook |
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There is a range of information available on this website and in the brochure, however, travellers will find much more information in the Outback Way Atlas and Guidebook. The Guidebook includes detailed maps, commentary, pre-trip planning tools and enroute information that helps travellers experience the very best of the Outback Way. A good travelling companion It is written in a style that older children can read en-route.
Traveller’s can purchase the Atlas from visitor-discovery centres along the Outback Way as well as map shops, book stores and outdoor-lifestyle stores or wherever Hema Maps are sold. An order form is available in the downloads section of this site.
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Travelling the outback raises as many questions as it answers. Explorers have been fascinated by its appeal for centuries. The Outback Way has thirty-one interpretive panels at places of interest, roadhouses and major stopovers to enlighten travellers as their journey unfolds. Each panel provides a unique insight to a local, natural, cultural or scientific story that might otherwise have gone untold. The panels also provide travellers with an opportunity to stop, revive and survive and to help ensure they arrive safely and enlightened! Large approach signs will be installed adjacent to each interpetive site so that travellers can safely slow down and pull over to view each site.
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The Outback Way is a cross-country adventure. What better way to show off your travels than with an Outback Way bumper sticker available from visitor-discovery centres and most roadhouses along the Outback Way. For the energetic or inquisitive traveller there’s an Outback Way Geocache Kit that enables travellers, be they geocaching novices or enthusiasts, to participate in the World’s longest treasure hunt. The geocache kit enables travellers to swap mementos, record notes and enjoy the Way-finder Trail. The cache kits are available from visitor-discovery centres or Shire Offices along the Outback Way.
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