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How early do you need to hit the road to travel inland?
Very interested to hear from those with that rare combination of local knowledge and eclipse experience.. How early do you think people need to leave Cairns/Port Douglas if they are planning to observe the eclipse from locations along the Mulligan Highway?
Assuming a typical forecast like the last few days, will the few sweet spots along the Mulligan Highway get occupied by people during the day on the Tuesday or will most people not move to these kind of locations till just the hours prior to eclipse?
Does that long straight stretch of the Mulligan Highway 25km west of Mt Carbine provide ample opportunity for parking off the road, so that you could turn up there after 5am and still expect to find a spot to safely pull off the road?
Is the Mulligan Highway likely to become congested in the couple of hours before the eclipse, or under the typical kind of weather pattern we've seen, will most people just take their chances where they are? ie.. do you expect thousands or just hundreds of people trying to travel along that road in the pre-dawn hours?
Appreciate thoughts on this one.. particularly from people like Mr Cuttle!
Phil
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