Honeymoon is fast approaching
and need to do some flight planning for the following flight in a 172 (over 5 weeks from mid May):
Jandakot
Meekatharra (fuel)
Newman (fuel) then Rudall River to camp
Fitzroy Crossing (fuel)
Mornington Wilderness Lodge overngiht.
Halls Creek (fuel)
Bungles (Bellburn, camp, walking for a couple of days in the Bungles)
VRD (Fuel)
Victoria River Crossing (camp, walking)
Timber Creek (overnight)
Bradshaw/Fitzmaurice River (overfly)
Kununurra (fuel, overnight)
ElQuestro (overnight)
Mitchell Plateau (camp - 2-3 days walking around the falls)
Prince Regent NR Glenlelg River/George Water (Kingsford-Smith's forced landing site, Coffee Royal Affair) (overfly)
Mt Hart (overnight)
Mt Elizabeth (overnight few nights walking??)
Derby (fuel)
Cape Leveque (overnight)
Broome (fuel)
LaGrange ???
Wallal Downs???
Pardoo Station???
Port Headland (fuel, overnight)
Exmouth (overnight)
Coral Bay (overnight)
Carnarvon
Shark Bay
Woolen Station
Kalbarri
Geraldton (fuel)
Jandakot.
Now based on the above outline, what are some other "not to miss" ALAs, strips and stations etc that we should stop at en route? We'll be splitting the time between nice places and camping under the wing; we are very interested in remote ALA's, well removed from civilisation, maybe station strips and the like.
I'll be updating this route as info comes to hand. Some stuff obviously is to be confirmed with phone calls strip conditions etc. Places marked with a ?? are airstrips I have found on Google Earth or 1:250K topo maps, know nothing about and have a
preliminary interest in.... Any updated info/contact details would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
P.S. Woomera, hopefully this might be a useful "knowledge bank" for those planning WA flyaways....
(edited to update route)