0500km Off the Beaten Track - West Coast Australia e# 0 250 miles

Arafura Sea MARBLE BAR Timor Beagle Gulf KALUMBURU Tumbleweeds blow across the road as Sea •# Darwin you unwind yourself from your Few travellers make it to this shady, vehicle, shake off the dust and enter palm-fringed mission at the end of a the cool, shady interior of the Ironclad KALUMBURU disintegrating track, but those who Hotel. An icy beer has never tasted •# make the effort are rewarded by laid- better. back camping, WWII wrecks, lonely beaches and legendary fishing. O rd R Oombulgurri i v Gregory Aboriginal e National MT AUGUSTUS I N D I A N r Land Park O C E A N A long way from the bitumen (and •# iver Dampier y R DUNCAN RD Peninsula Derby ro most tourists), this goliath between z DUNCAN ROAD Broome •# it the Pilbara and Gascoyne easily F The Kimberley •# Halls dwarfs more fancied Uluru. Five Creek The rarely visited Duncan Road different access routes, hidden rock provides a more laid-back, scenic and WESTERN art and walking trails provide many •#Wolfe Creek self-sufficient outback experience Meteorite Crater options for exploration. Port AUSTRALIA Great than the Gibb River Road. There are Hedland Sandy •# Desert Balgo beautiful gorges, safe billabongs and Dampier •# The Pilbara Aboriginal zero facilities. You’ll be sleeping in the •#Karratha Land •# million-star hotel. MARBLE Central BAR Australia NORTHERN •# Karijini Rudall Aboriginal Land Exmouth H am National River National TERRITORY er Park Park sle y Lake Ash R MacDonnell R bur ang Mackay anges MT ton Riv e e r Little Gibson •# AUGUSTUS Sandy Desert Alice R Desert Springs oyne Riv CANNING Gibson Carnarvon •# asc er Lake Desert Nature Simpson Desert G Simpson National Park STOCK ROUTE Buchanan Reserve Desert STEEP POINT & Warakurna- River on Wing-Irr CANNING STOCK ROUTE DIRK HARTOG ISLAND is h Aboriginal Land •# c r •# Wiluna The most serious off-road u Pitjantjatjaranku M Great Aboriginal Land undertaking in Australia stretches STEEP POINT & DIRK Victoria 2000km through desert and salt flats, Cosmo Newberry Desert HARTOG ISLAND linking together wells along this Aboriginal Neale Land Junction disused stock route. It’s not for the Sunsets from the mainland’s most Nature Reserve WESTERN faint-hearted; you should consider westerly point just don’t come any travelling in convoy. (p000) better, nor does the fishing. Nearby, AUSTRALIA Great Victoria Maralinga Tjarutja Desert Nature Aboriginal Dirk Hartog Island is replete with Reserve Land history, begging to be explored. Just SOUTH getting here is an adventure. (p000) •# Kalgoorlie - Boulder Nullarbor Nullabor AUSTRALIA Plain Regional Yellabinna Northam Reserve •# Regional s Perth •# Reserve e Dundas g •# DRYANDRA n I N D I A N Fremantle Nature a •# R WOODLAND Reserve s Mandurah r O C E A N Austral e Nuytsland Great ian Bigh d t n Nature i •# l Bunbury Reserve F Busselton •# •# Esperance Eyre DRYANDRA WOODLAND Peninsula •# Adelaide •# •# Go marsupial crazy and get Port Lincoln Denmark Albany •# acquainted with bilbies, boodies and woylies at Dryandra’s excellent Barna Mia Animal Sanctuary. Perth is just a S O U T H E R N couple of hours away from this O C E A N protected stand of eucalypt forest.