Newcastle and Districts Four Wheel Drive Club Inc.

Participants: Gerry & Deirdre Eastwood (trip leaders), Barry& Sue Casson,Bruce Harris & Lynn Brock,Terry & Barbara Gannon,Owen & Jill Scott, Peter & Jenny Reid.
We are setting off from Newcastle on 7 June to the National 4x4 clubs gathering in Pomona Qld. From there we will have six vehicles heading West to Innamincka, down the Streszlecki Track, up the Oodnadatta Track and out to Dalhousie Springs. Deviating from the formal Binns Track we intend to travel via Mt Dare to Finke, Lambert Centre, Chambers Pillar, Rainbow Valley to Alice Springs. Then out to Arltunga and follow the Binns Track to Halls Creek. We will then spend about 3 weeks in various parts of the Kimberley. Down the Tanami to Alice Springs where we will have a change of personnel. Terry & Barbara will take over as trip leaders and hopefully head across the Simpson to Birdsville, in company with Bruce and Lynn, Peter and Jenny and also Kevin and Cathy Thomas and Bob Alexander and Donna Baker who are meeting up in Alice Springs from the second group doing the Binns Track. If the conditions permit we will travel Down the Cordillo Downs Road to Innamincka and back to Newcastle via the Bore Track to Tibooburra, White Cliffs and Cobar. We hope to be home on 21 August. At this stage a lot of the details are in limbo because of the water situation in the Outback, but we will make decisions on routes etc when the time comes.
4.6.10 Only a couple of days before we head off and the weather has closed in. We will be heading up the coast in the rain unfortunately. Some good news has come through!!! The Burke And Wills Bridge outside Innamincka has been opened so we will be able to go as per our original plans through that stretch at least.