Lyndon river
Submitted by carnarvonite on Wed, 2014-05-07 16:16
For those planning to travel up to Coral Bay please beware that the road from Minilya through to Coral Bay is closed due to the Lyndon river flowing over the crossing. Was running at 18inches this morning but has increased in depth over the day and with rain falling now and lots more predicted in coming days one would expect it to be closed for 4-5 days at least.
You can still get there via Burkett road but this adds an extra couple of hundred Ks to the trip and with the extra rain falling I wouldn't be surprised if that closes soon as well.
Ben Derecki
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Thanks carnarvonite. I have a
Thanks carnarvonite. I have a few mates heading up on Friday that are interested in this intel.
81macca
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I was up there for the first
I was up there for the first floods and the water seemed to subside really quick, apart from the Lyndon River crossing witch was still over a metre. The big problem and why most of the roads out of town were closed was because of all the debris that has washed onto the road and needed to be cleared before they would reopen them. Burkett Rd is a long boring detour!!!
I actually fish.
uncle
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bugger
brings back memories of a few years ago when we were stuck there for 3 days,fun times, spare a thought for those camping
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Rob H
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yep we got stuck between
yep we got stuck between Lyndon River and NWCH for 2 days with 5 kids-youngest still on the bottle.
Minilya were kind enough to refuse to sell us any full cream milk even though they had it for tea and coffee-would only sell longlife slim milk.
Also made a big scene when we purchased a "drovers breakfast" for all the young kids to eat-"you have to buy a meal for each person"
And wouldnt rent a donga for the kids to sleep in unless we rented two "family rooms" at $250-this was just for during the day not overnight.
We were stuck there for another day and a half.
New owners nowadays though I believe
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Jason D
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Thanks
A mate up there at the moment woke up to an ankle deep pond in their annex the other morning!
I am heading up Friday (my first trip there) so will look into this further, thanks.