Turon National Park to Sofala- Flooded Causeways and Deep Crossings

An awesome 2 day camping trip along the Turon River from Turon National Park through Turon Gates to Sofala in NSW Australia.
After a solid week of rain we decide to head out to the beautiful Turon River and check out the impact of the floods.
Impassable crossings, flooded causeways and beautiful scenery make this off road camping trip one to remember.
Such a awesome part of the country that makes you really slow down and take in the amazing landscape. Definitely worth packing up the 4wd and getting out to explore the area.

[@nicrus100]

Love your enthusiasm for life! Great watch.

[@shaneod]

Cheers Nicole! Glad you liked the video 😁

[@AdamAbello]

HAHAHA 9:56 those pesky horses always make it fun at that gate. Mate this is prob the best vid ive seen of the track from turon the sofala you really took your time to enjoy and it shows. Its so bizzar seeing so much water out that way, ive never seen it myself. thanks for sharing mate loved it.

[@shaneod]

Hey Adam, Happy to hear you liked this video just as much as we did being out there! It’s such a beautiful area and I quite enjoyed seeing it with that Amount of water, made is really adventurous! Cheers

[@CodeCapers]

Love the video, awesome work!

[@shaneod]

Cheers mate! Glad u enjoyed it

[@1Coolbanana]

Love your content mate, all being local to me (Sydney) its good to see. Well done mate

[@shaneod]

Cheers mate! There are some great places just a few hours from Sydney!

[@samartz]

Just subscribed, you guys do really good simple vids in NSW!

[@shaneod]

Cheers mate, we’re always trying new things but it’s all about the adventure

[@4WheelingInNSW]

Hey buddy, as you can tell from my clips, we LOOOOOVE Turon National Park, we frequent it often but in all the years we’ve been going there, I’ve never seen the water like that - that’s just nuts mate !!!! The little Lux’y did it with ease mate, we’ll done. Great to see someone out there in the less than ‘ideal’ conditions, well done buddy 👍🇦🇺

[@shaneod]

Yeah mate it was pretty high! Pretty special moment to actually get out and see it like this, beautiful part of the world I can see why u love it out there mate!

[@4WheelingInNSW]

@@shaneod let me know when you’re out that way next 😉👍

[@bcme6068]

Well done mate. I did the drive from Turon Gates to Sofala on 11 Dec....the long way around...given the volume of water out there. An awesome spot. Another great video. 👍

[@shaneod]

Thanks mate and thanks for supporting me, really appreciate it mate! Really is an awesome spot!

[@Metal_Lifer]

Nice video mate! I love it out there, however most of the time I camp in the national park and stay put for the weekend. I have seen the Turon in similar condition to that, it seems there is no middle ground with the Turon, it's either a raging torrent or a piss weak trickle...Pretty keen to to Upper Turon Rd to/from Sofala sometime soon. Thanks for the vid, great effort!

[@shaneod]

Cheers mate! I have heard that a couple times now and I’ve only been there twice. First time was all passable and not too deep but I definitely love the area, great spot to spend the weekend.

[@sinistra328]

New to your channel, great video mate. I look forward to seeing more.

[@shaneod]

Cheers, Glad u liked the video mate! 🤙🏻

[@AndysAverageAdventures]

Crazy the amount of water out there at the moment

[@shaneod]

Too right! I was expecting it to high but not like this! Have to say though it was awesome getting out and seeing it like this...

[@shubhajitbhowmik2687]

There are some very difficult shots specially where the places are flooded. You needed to cross them physically, then come back to the car, drive the car, then take the camera back, then going to the car again - massive job mate. These waterfall sort of sounds are very relaxing, now I am feeling sleepy. A personal request: can you make a video without talking? Only the nature and activities sound - there are examples on youtube from Aussie campers if you need to understand the concept. Cause the places you go, their serenity is sometimes dope

[@shaneod]

I like the sound of this idea! I’ll put some thought into it and see what come up with in the next few months 🙌🏻

[@4WheelingInNSW]

Great for ASMR mate. A great channel for that is a Japanese content creator ‘Morinone’ Fantastic channel for that sort of thing. Great to help you sleep when you’re not overly tired. Used it plenty of time myself 🤣 I’ve thought about doing one or two vids like that myself. 😉👍

[@tyyt3206]

Good video

[@shaneod]

Cheers dude! Thanks for ur support 😊

[@bradgarske927]

You are lucky you followed the locals advice a 4x4 was washed away about 2 weeks at that Crossing

[@shaneod]

Sorry to hear, hopefully it could be fully recovered... I’m not surprised though, if it was anything like this! looked like it had some real power behind it!

[@ammonjoseph9007]

I'm Keen to get out before Christmas, Do you have a map of the tracks you took?

[@shaneod]

There is a map log in my Garmin but basically I went up to Capertee area and followed the map into diggens campground and took some random tracks around the river there Then drove up to the upper Turon rd and mostly followed that along the river through to Sofala. Few random tracks I took but this was the main part of it. Hope it helps mate, it’s great place to explore

[@4WheelingInNSW]

Unfortunately they closed a couple of the tracks within Turon over the last few years due to ‘track regeneration’ ( 🤣🐂💩😡 ) so there’s not a hell of a lot of tracks in there now. But one awesome track you can do, which can be a little daunting to 4x4 newbies, is The Pinnacle Fire Trail which goes from the Woolshed Flats campground ( within Turon NP ) all the way up and out to Sunny Corner. That’s a fun track but be warned, the red clay in the area gets very slippery after some rain so make sure you take recovery aids 😉👍

[@ammonjoseph9007]

@@4WheelingInNSW Thanks