Talawana Track - Gibson Desert

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Charlie, seeing more than 2 cars in the one day is "heavily trafficked" in my opinion. But I don't think you will encounter too many traffic jams on your proposed route.
But it has been a while since I was last on it so who knows?

Charlie,
Some reports I’ve found recently paint a rather dismal picture south of Kunawarritji, with extensive flooding around Wells 24-26. Much of this area is ti tree country, so good country to keep away from.
Apparently the Moons have travelled the Gary Highway recently then onto the Talawana track, if I read the report correctly. The Gary has been described as rough & washed out in places. Both Gary & Talawana are a bit scratchy.

In 2018, we came up Gary Highway, via Veever’s Crater, fuelled up at Kunawarritji, then along Telfer road, escorted along mine road from the security gate & camped just south of mine, just within earshot of mine. Next day down to Desert Queen Baths.

Bob

Not recent, so not very relevant.
We walked to a Degree Confluence south of the Gary Junction Road on 26/6/2005, drove south via Telfer
and a second Degree Confluence, drove through Karlamilyi NP then turned west on the Talawana Track, called into Jigalong, attempted a third Degree Confluence south of Nullagine, did a spot of sightseeing north of Nullagine and were camped in Carawine Gorge (coming in via Scull Springs Road) on 30/6/2005.
My only recollection of the roads is that the corrugations in the south of the park were really rotten.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

We went across that way in late July 2018. Our plan was to take the the Gary Highway to the Talawana & then west as you are planning. Like this year there had been extensive flooding where the Talawana met the CSR. We had no certainty as to whether we could get through, so left Kunawarritji with sufficient fuel to make the return journey to Kunawarritji if need be.

As it turned out we only did 10 or 15kms on the Gary Highway before turning around. The track was very tight & scratchy, & lots of spinifex was still smouldering , with big smoke ahead of us. We were fearful we might get trapped by fire if conditions changed. Subsequently at Desert Queen baths we met a number of folk taking a 600km(?) detour because they could not get through the flooded area of the CSR, so i think it was pretty clear we would not have made it through if we had taken the Talawana East track.

As it was it turned out to be quite fortuitous.

We drove into Karlamilyi from the north via Punmu & the Telfer mine. This was a far more interesting route that the route we took south out of Karlamilyi to the Talawana ( & on to the Kalgan River & Newman).