How far can a caravan go?

[Swanning_it]

Hi guys,

I can just see you lot now rolling around laughing, but I note Weipa has a caravan park, so I assume caravans do go there? My question is, how far can a van go by bypassing Weipa (Bamaga?) without talking about the type of traveling the Gall boys did with their Kedron to the Cape (http://www.kedroncaravans.com/york%20video.htm).

We do travel plenty of rough dirt, but obviously no real 4wd stuff!

Ian

[xina]

Hi Swanning it,
My ex. took a caravan to Bromley in about 1982/3, but I don't know which way he went in. If he took it across the Wenlock, he would have had to wait 'till the River was way down. I think maybe he went through the Frenchmans' road, to Carron Valley. I know he and Henry Wilson dozed a road from Carron Valley, ( Henrys' property ) to Temple Bay, where we lived. Henry had a caravan there already. He and Bev. had lived there for a number of years before Syd. got there.
Thinking back, if I remember the road rightly, it would have been a pretty hairy ride going through past Bromley homestead. There were some pretty tight and steep curves in parts.
I can't say about the road from Bamaga. There was only one way to the Tip in my day. Up the telegraph road.
Bromley is now a National Park I believe.
xina.

[campdog]

Hi guys,

I can just see you lot now rolling around laughing, but I note Weipa has a caravan park, so I assume caravans do go there? My question is, how far can a van go by bypassing Weipa (Bamaga?) without talking about the type of traveling the Gall boys did with their Kedron to the Cape (http://www.kedroncaravans.com/york%20video.htm).

We do travel plenty of rough dirt, but obviously no real 4wd stuff!

Ian
Ian you can get a caravan right to the top. The roads are not that bad.Lots of jayco off roaders there last year and a couple of bigger ones as well.
You could always tow it to the top and put the remains on the barge back to cairns.

[Nedly]

G'day Ian,
You would have to take the bypass road from from Bramwell Junction, no real 4WD'ing just endless corrugations.
I think your main problem would be 4WD's travelling at 80kph+ while you would be doing much less.
Once you get across the Jardine the road is actually quite good, in fact the new road to Bamaga might be open this year, it will be better than some of the roads in Brisbane.