travelling to wa

rustylizard · Member

travelling to wa

exa41 · Guru

we went over in January a few years ago now but it was dam hot 52 deg on the Nullabour , suggest travel at night for that bit , just watch the kanga`s , camels ,etc. Probably the best time and I might be wrong is late March / april.

Deetric · Veteran Member

I believe April May and June can be good but to really be sure go to the BOM site
www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/cgi_bin_scripts/windrose_selector.cgi. this should help.

Happy travels from WA.

pambaz · Senior Member

Best to leave it until late March. Still warmish but bearable. Winds can come up anytime it's just one of those things. We have crossed in March , May and August and didn't get any wind. I would not drive the Nullabor at night.

dazz49 · Senior Member

W A stands for windy always

tonyd · Guru

A cynical mate suggested that if you want to drive the Nullabor at night, wait for a road train or similiar and tuck in about 75 metres behind it. As you roar along, the big rig takes care of the wildlife. Not nice, but effective.

Tony

Vic41 · Guru

tonyd wrote:
A cynical mate suggested that if you want to drive the Nullabor at night, wait for a road train or similiar and tuck in about 75 metres behind it. As you roar along, the big rig takes care of the wildlife. Not nice, but effective.
Tony

According to one of our GN members who is a truckie, while trucks will "straddle" some wildlife, other vehicles (not trucks) following do not have the ground clearance to avoid colliding with the carcasses that comes out under trucks, so maybe not such a good idea. He had witnessed this situation.

-- Edited by Vic41 on Saturday 8th of February 2014 02:31:32 AM

Bent Axle Bob · Senior Member

confuse Why travel at night.? Sure, the Nullabor is a long stretch of road and can be uninteresting, but you truely get an understanding of just how vast this country really is. There truely is beauty in that country, you just need to look at it differently than travelling thru other eastern states.

I have done a night crossing, and apart from wildlife hazards, you need to factor in fatigue factors( yours and the other drivers).

Temperatures begin to drop around the end of Feb, but winds can hit at any time and from any direction.

After 6 return crossings,one at night, I would not consider a night crossing again.

-- Edited by Bent Axle Bob on Saturday 8th of February 2014 10:47:49 AM