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Outback Safety with Wayward Bus Touring Company.
OUTBACK SAFETY YOUR HEALTH: Many areas visited are remote. Temperatures can range from minus 7C on winter nights up to mid 40sC on summer days. Travellers should be mindful of their personal fitness and any medical conditions. If in doubt, consult your doctor. Mar-May and Aug-Oct are the more moderate months. While winter nights can be cold, the days are very pleasant. SPEED: Unsealed roads must be driven with care. Wayward Bus has a company policy of not exceeding 80 kph on dirt roads. This is respected and adhered to by our crew. ROAD CLOSURES: Unsealed roads become closed to all vehicles after significant rainfall, including 4WDs. Driving on a wet road can leave a lot of tyre track damage when the surface dries. While the Far North of South Australia is one of the driest places on Earth, there is still a risk of disruption to our plans. About 5% of our tours detour via the sealed Stuart Highway if there has been rain - or a real risk of rain - and at these times we substitute more time and places in the Flinders Ranges and/or MacDonnell Ranges.Sometimes we may wait a half day or so if there is a good chance of the road drying enough to re-open. We have up to 3 sections, on unsealed roads (Wilpena-Angorichina-Parachilna / Lyndhurst-Marree-WilliamCreek-CooberPedy / CooberPedy-Dalhousie-Kulgera). The possibility of one tour having to miss out on all 3 sections is extremely rare. Our driver-guides always check with local and state authorities for conditions and weather forecasts plus we watch the Bureau of Metereolgy and road status websites from our operations bases in Adelaide and Alice. Some of the links are in the list below. The rain radar and cloud satellite images in particular give us an excellent 'real time' view. If it starts to get tricky on us, there are 4 to 5 routes out of Oodnadatta and 3 out of William Creek. Having said all that, we have been isolated at William Creek for several days only twice in 10 years! If this is a worry, remember that before 1985 the Stuart Highway was not sealed from Woomera to the border. When it rained, there was no sealed road to retreat to - yet express buses ran up and down the dusty road, taking the chance of being stuck for days (with 40+ people, and little food or shelter). In early 2000, even the new sealed Stuart Highway was cut for a week by floodwaters. UHF TWO-WAY RADIOS: Our Outback vehicles have UHF radios. UHF radio repeater stations exist to cover all the areas we travel through. FIRST AID KITS: All our vehicles carry First Aid kits.