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Originally Posted by iceman
Terrible!
Much worse than the Cape Leveque road. The corrugations are bigger and deeper, there's some creek crossings and lots of slow going with deep ruts etc.
Even the road past drysdale station is worse than the Gibb River Road or the road to Cape Leveque, but once you turn off towards Mitchell Falls it gets worse again.
It took us over 3 hours to do the 85km. A smaller car would be quicker - our truck/bus was heavy!
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Those palms really are something else but I know what you mean about finding
a chance to stop and photograph them.
Years ago we hired a 4WD Hilux out of Broome. When we rolled into the camp ground
at Mitchell Falls, a couple of old timers came over and said to me, "We were
just discussing what sort of vehicle would be best suited to drive on this road,
but you have answered the question for us - a rental vehicle!"
There is a Swahili expression "
pole pole" which means to go calmly and
slowly and I am always bemused by ads for 4WD vehicles on television here
that love to depict their vehicles being thrashed prancing over corrugations and
leaping over sand dunes. The last thing one wants to do is have a mechanical
failure out the back of nowhere and it is always wise to do what the East Africans do
and go
pole pole.
