Can you get away for 3-4 weeks? It's such a long way, 2 big days drive to even get to Rockhampton and you are still 2 thousand kms short. Are you going to do the Old Telegraph track, drive the log bridges and risk the deep water crossings, or take the Development road? Watch out for crocs, stingers, stonefish, taipans and sea snakes. Everything wants to kill you up there.

C'Mon Mike, no need to scare the terrorists!
I would love to see Vesko's trip report and photos of the Cape York trip, but I would suggest it is done out of cyclone/flood season. In the past week we have experienced an earth quake, cyclone and then flood (the latter being significantly less harmful than was forecast - thank goodness. The risk gets worse further north.
Cyclones can still occur as late as May, though they are rare after late March. The cyclone itself may not trash the FL2, but it would probably prevent too much progress along the tracks - north or south.
Can't wait for the photos and the commentary though Vesko - it is your destiny!

It would be good to see an FL 2 conquering Gunshot Creek or Nolan's Brook wouldn't it? The water is pretty deep on some of them so you would have to time your visit so that the creeks were as low as possible. August/September maybe? Vesko travels solo which adds to the difficulty. If anyone can do it in an FL 2 , Vesko can, and with pictures.

PS He needs to concentrate and not get distracted by backpacker girls throwing themselves at him for a trip like that.

A true gentleman adventurer would never leave behind a backpacker girl in need.

Seriously guys – you put too much fate in Vesko.

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A few shots after crossing the Simpson Desert.

The horrid Sturt Stony Desert full of sharp, sharp unavoidable rocks:

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Mate, your pictures are too good and make the rocks look ok. That stony desert track is indeed horrible and eats tyres, I clearly remember wincing non stop the entire way. You did very well to get through on standard road tyres, 18's no less.

Hey Mike, Sturt Stony Desert made me crawl 10 to 15 km/h. While I was crawling this slow some hoons with massive tyres overtook me driving more than 100 k/h. Seeing them running like that, I speeded up and the drive became more comfortable, but soon the fear of ripping a tyre prevailed and I slowed down again thinking "better later, than sorry".

I cannot resist to add a few photos of our trip (after my blog story is finished):


This is Uluru. I've picked up my girl from the airport, we checked in a luxury accommodation and now we are driving towards Kata Tjuta. The day is nearly gone. We decide to leave Uluru for tomorrow.

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Fantastic as always Vesko, simply stunning.

Amazing photos

The same thing happened to me Vesko. I was crawling along because I was down to no spares left (damaged both my spares on previous tracks), and these guys came barreling past throwing rocks everywhere. They treat their cars like crap.
Great pictures mate, better than being there because there aren't any flies I think Kata Tjuta is the pick but they are both awesome. I've been there 4 times and would go again tomorrow.

Thanks guys,

These are from the next day, dedicated to Uluru. First we did the 10 km walk around the rock. I found it amazing:

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I don't think anyone is actually prepared for how big that rock is. You think it's going to be a big rock, but you get there and it is a really f***ing big rock. I was there in January one year and watching the sun go down on it. The time was near 9pm and the temperature was 47C. Another time I took my wife to see it and we did the walk around the base. Luckily we had the fly proof head wear (a mesh veil with elastic around the neck) because we couldn't breathe without swallowing flies. They were unbelievable, and you know they are bad when an Aussie says they are bad because we know flies.

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Absolutely stunning photo's!
It brings back memories of some of my road trips there, after coming from SE England where you are rarely further than two fields from a pub, the vastness of the place is awe inspiring!
I never did get used to it.

Have you tried hanging corks with string off the rim of the hat to keep the flys off.

Slightly off topic but I once had a Vauxhall Frontera I was on holiday in Andorra and took a wrong turning and ended up having to go for miles up a very steep mountain track parts with which felt like very slippery gravel on 45 degree slopes with just enough traction to keep going. Luckily the car had low range box. I couldn't turn around and was dreading having to come back down again. However when I got to the top I found myself in a car park with a BMW 5 series parked there and a main road so easy ride down again. That was enough for one day. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE