Great Western Woodlands Tour

Trip Manager: Kim Epton

Trip Grade: 1 - 3

Distance: 1500 kilometres approximately.

Description: Sewell Nature Reserve (Meeting Point and first night camp)
Kulin
Lake King
Lake Hope Track
HNR
McDermid Rock
Banks Rock
Old HNR
Mundale Track
Mundale Dome
Sunday Soak
Woodline Camp
Widgiemooltha
No. 3 Woodline Camp
67 Mile Main Camp
Burra Rock
Nepean Track
Gnarlbine Rock/Soak
Victoria Rock
Dally Track
Woolgangie
Southern Cross
Merredin
Cockburn

Meeting Point: Sewell Nature Reserve, Baker Road, Bullaring -32.555062,117.782643

UHF Channel: 14 (alternative is 15).

What to Bring: Standard recovery gear and camping gear. You need to be self-sufficient in respect of food and water.

Photographs: As part payment for participation in the trip, photos are to be made available at no cost for use in the photo-essay trip report published on the Club website. Copyright in the photographs is retained by the photographer.

Disclaimer: The Cockburn 4WD Club Inc and the Trip Manager do not accept liability for any loss, damage or injury to persons or property arising from participating in this Trip. While all due care will be taken, no responsibility will be accepted.

Vehicle Damage and/or Recovery: Your vehicle may be damaged and/or become inoperable/immobile and other participants in the Trip will make ‘best endeavours’ to repair it or get it to a populated place or another place where commercial recovery can be effected. The ultimate cost of damage/recovery is your responsibility.

If you act inappropriately while on the trip (as decided by the Trip Manager), you will be asked to leave.

Great Western Woodlands

The Great Western Woodlands is an internationally significant area of great biological richness. It is the largest remaining area of intact Mediterranean climate woodland left on Earth. It has been compared to Africa’s Serengeti. Covering almost 16 million hectares - about the same size as England - it is a continuous band of woodlands and heathlands interspersed with salt lakes that stretches from the edge of the Wheatbelt to the Eastern Goldfields and pastoral rangelands to the north, the inland deserts to the north-east and the Nullarbor Plain to the east. It is home to more than 20% of all Australia’s known plant species and remains a unique haven for a community of animal species that are threatened elsewhere in Australia. One of these is the community of birds typically found in temperate woodlands. As a direct result of habitat destruction and fragmentation, woodland bird communities have been in decline in many parts of Australia, but they can still be found in the Great Western Woodlands.

The Great Western Woodlands is a largely intact ecosystem predominantly located on public lands. It is, however, threatened by poor fire management, feral animals, weed encroachment, and human activities including road construction and mining.