Just a few weeks after plans for a massive new 4WD track in northern WA were unveiled, an equally ambitious off-road route is on the agenda for the state’s south-west.
The South West Australia Way heads from Albany through the Goldfields shires of Menzies, Coolgardie, Leonora and the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder before heading into the Mid West and then south back to the start point at Mundaring.
Eastern Goldfields 4WD Club president Ben Broeder told the West Australian that the route would potentially bring many more people into the region and would be achievable in a modest family 4WD.
“Ultimately that is going to be a fairly interesting loop,” he said. “Certainly the Cave Hill and Woodlines area … that will bring more people who would traditionally only do the Holland Track further into the Goldfields.”
It’s been an exciting few weeks for grey nomads and others who like the idea of getting out on to remote tracks. It has only just been announced that a new road is being opened up across sacred lands in Western Australia’s far-north and it will cross some of the most remote and untouched ancient country in the world.
The ABC reports that the initiative is being led by the Balgo community, an isolated township 2,800 kilometres north of Perth, on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. The 140-kilometre road winds will through the Balgo Hills, a savannah plain dotted with spinifex,
Great news, need a few new adventures.
Now I just have to find the time to do them.