Boulia to Gemtree

Tobermorey to Gem Tree is a fairly easy run, not 13 hours, Google some times tells porkies........ Have driven that way a couple of times, but can't remember how long it took, maybe 6 hours!

We camped at Jervios on the way through just so we saw what it was like and honestly, waste of time, very run down and total lack of intetest by the owners. Most visitors left after using the amenaties.
Even Tobermorey was a disappointment being just after the floods and rebuild a few years back, just stopped there to support them after their struggle but werent back in full swing, hopfully got better since then.
Gemtree is a totally amazing camp site, cant recomend it enough.

We went west to east in 2017, stayed at Gemtree, had a quick look at Jervois (disappointing) then onto Tobermory that night.

We did leave early but got to Tobermory OK without pushing very hard (70-80ks)

Last did Donohue/Plenty in June 2021.

The gravel sections on Donohue were in excellent order then. From the border to Jervious was cut up in places with bulldust, and the section after Jervious had been cut by heavy rain then, but some of that section would have been sealed since.

You should have no trouble getting to Gem Tree from Tobermory in an easy day. Might pay to ring Gem Tree to book a site. They fill up quickly & appear to have a cap on numbers.

Bob

Hi Greg,

Copy and paste from a reply to another thread.

Google Maps makes some assumptions when giving travel times over gravel roads. It quite often uses 60 kph or lower as the driving speed when calculating time. This is often quite a lot slower than the speed you can actually travel at.

I also use a combination of both Google maps and the Hema Road & 4WD Atlas when planning my trips, and generally use 80 kph as the driving speed to calculate driving times. Not always accurate, but generally it is closer to the actual time required to drive that distance than what Google maps says. Of course, there is nothing wrong with using the Exploroz Traveller App to help plan your trip either, not sure on the accuracy of time required for distance travelled.

To find out the actual road conditions, you might want to contact someone locally closer to the time of your travel for the most up to date road conditions.

Macca.

Stayed at Tobermory a few years ago, was in Alice by mid afternoon. We fuelled up and lunched at Boulia before that, was set up camp at Tobermory before sunset