One of the last outback roads constructed by Len Beadell’s Gunbarrel Road Construction Party (GRCP), Gary Junction Road is one of few direct west-east crossings from the WA coast into the red centre of the country.
Our crossing of the Gary Junction Road commenced with a run along the Telfer Road to Kunawarritji, we pick up the story for this blog after camping over night on the Canning Stock Route at Well 33.
A convoy of vehicles led by the legendary Ron Moon ran part way up the Gary Highway (Everard Junction to Windy Corner) in late July 2022 – we took two days to traverse the often rutted, overgrown and narrow track.
We touched on the Gary Highway again a few weeks later, passing through Gary Junction when travelling sole and homebound from WA to the NT across the Gary Junction Road.
The Anne Beadell Highway (ABH), named by Len after his wife, formed a critical east-west link in the Woomera range road network and formed the back bone off which many of his outback roads linked. Traversing roughly 1,325km of South and West Australian desert country the ABH runs through some of the most remote, desolate and waterless terrain on the Australian continent – this blog covers our 2022 traverse of this majestic country.