Aushiker wrote: So Wyndham to Pentecost River in a day, is that what you did?
I think this is called the Kurunji Track. The King River Road peals off on another tangent. Much of the road/track is great riding, actually one part across the floodplain was about my favourite ride ever, but there are some stretches of bulldust as it goes on and the last bit of sand is a laugh, you can see the road in the distance and you are pushing/carrying your load through the 4WD churned up, bottomless, sand.
Easy enough to do in a day but there is a good aboriginal art area and the Prison Boab to slow you down.
Information on which particular track to take is actually hard to find, no one seemed to know in town, but just when you think you are lost there's a sign at a gate. There's plenty of other signs stating you will be shot if you venture off the track to any degree, or words to that effect.
I wrote a bit about this particular issue
here.If you like to avoid the highway you can bike down the Ord River valley on Perry Creek Road to Wyndham, where you can finish your day with a baggage-less ride, 300m, up the fantastic Five Rivers Lookout for sunset. Good camping spots along the way. Can't get a bike through Ivanhoe Crossing though.
The Pentecost River crossing is just above the tidal zone in the estuary. It was ankle deep in September but there is a fair flow of 4WDs during the day who you could hitch a ride with if it is deeper earlier in the season. I crossed is after watching 5m croc float down the river while I was munching my breakfast. To date no cyclists have been eaten to my knowledge but there is always a first time.
Going this way you do get to miss El Questro but, maybe people have been there, but they charge you $17 or something to look at their tiny, damp, gorges, most people said I hadn't missed anything and the Kurunjie is certainly worth traversing.