Proposed route of Raid 2000
Our Raid Leader has
proposed an ambitious and challenging route.
Rendezvous at Heavy Tree Gap Camping Grounds ALICE SPRINGS. About 70kms north to the
Sandover Highway
which runs off to the left from the Plenty Highway. Drive north east along the Sandover
Highway. About 530 kms reach Lake Nash which is near the Qld border. After the border we
head south-east down to Urandangi. At Urandangi head northeast to meet the Diamantina
Development road then north to MT ISA. We now head up the Barkly Highway to Camooweal.
Then up the Burketown-Camooweal road to Gregory Downs. From Gregory Downs head west to
LAWN HILL National Park. From Lawn Hill head back and cross the Burketown-Camooweal road
and head to Nardoo and on
to the Burke and Wills Roadhouse. From Burke and Wills Roadhouse head north up the Burke
Development road to
Normanton (maybe also visit Karumba).
(OR as an alternative (dirt road) from Lawn Hill National Park head back to Gregory downs
and north up the Camooweal-
Burketown road to Burketown. From Burketown head down to head towards Normanton via
Leichardt Falls and Inverleigh to Normanton).
From Normanton continue along the Burke Development road via Dunbar Highbury Gamboola
Chillagoe Mt Garnet and to the Undara Crater National Park to see the Lava Tubes. Then
head north to Cape Kimberley Resort which is just past Mossman over the Daintree River.
From Cape Kimberley it is proposed that those Raiders who so desire will head on up to
Cape York via Lakeland, Laura, Musgrave Homestead, Coen, Archer River
Roadhouse, Bamaga, Batavia Downs, Captain Billys Landing, cross the Jardine
River, Seisa (or Punshard Bay) and then back, while the non- Cape Yorkers pursue
other activities. See SURVEY REPORT below.
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