I would suggest going up the Telegraph road rather than the bypass
roads, more scenic and better camp spots by the rivers plus having
driven along it, the speeds of vehicles on that section are likely to be
much lower, you'd just need to walk your bikes across the creek
crossings. Staying at Twin Falls and a stop at Fruit bat falls is also
worth while, great spots to stop for the night and great swimming
spots. You'll find pitcher plants and sundews by the creeks. You can
head north on the Telegraph road past Twin falls for 2 creek crossings
then cut back across to the northern bypass road for the run to the
tip. The Telegraph roads are basically two wheel tracks and are in
reasonable shape with few corrugations for the most part. Having a flag
on a tall pole could be helpful to be spotted earlier on some of the
roads through the heathland areas. The approach and departure from
creek crossings can be steep but generally easily walkable as are the
crossings themselves. If a 4WD can cross, you can walk across. The
creeks up there are great, amazing clean clear warm water in all of them.
The bypass roads are known for horrendous corrugations, basically the
worst I've been on. People tend to drive too fast on them and their
ability to take evasive action on bad corrugations is limited to non
existent.
If you go to Iron Range, Cook's hut has a great dawn chorus and I found
the palm cockatoos at Chilli beach to be very approachable. Chilli
beach will be quite windy. Don't know if it's still the same but when I
was there a few years back all the camp spots in Iron Range were BYO
dunny and only had creek or well water available. I'd suggest going
into Iron Range and returning via the road that branches off just beyond
Archer River the other road marked crosses the Pascoe River and it can
be quite fast flowing and the track reportedly sees very little traffic
and is poorly signed.. Up near the tip some of the roads around
Somerset were very sandy as were some tracks around Punsand Bay.
regards,
Chris Ross
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