Will Your Fuel Get You There?

Longest stretch with no fuel: 520 km

Mt Dare → Birdsville

5 roads into town · check your tank before you go

Check your tank against the long stretches between fuel stops on each road into Birdsville — and see how much extra to carry.

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Before you set out

At least one full jerry can of fuel — and several more for the Simpson Desert crossing, where there is none for ~520 km.

Two spare tyres, a tyre-repair kit and a good air pump; let your tyres down for sand (the “4 psi rule”) and pump them back up for the hard road.

Recovery gear — a sand shovel, recovery tracks and a tow rope.

Several days of drinking water, in case of a breakdown or a road closed by rain.

A satellite phone or personal locator beacon: there is no mobile coverage once you leave town (roughly a 20 km radius).

Tell someone your route and when you expect to arrive.

Will Your Fuel Get You There?

About these tools

From Marree — the Birdsville Track

From Windorah — the Birdsville Developmental Road

From Bedourie — the Eyre Developmental Road (Bilby Way)

From Mt Dare — across the Simpson Desert

From Innamincka — the Cordillo Downs Road

Before you set out

Check the roads first