In May this year hubby and i set out from Brisbane to do the big loop. We headed in an anti clockwise direction and did the shortest route thru Qld ( we live there so will do that next time ) We have now been on the road for 5 months and have arrived in Perth so are about half way thru our trip and let me tell you we have enjoyed every bit of it so far. We have used lots of free camps and also a few caravan parks and seen some amazing sights, met some great people and have absolutely no regrets about undertaking this journey except maybe the fact we should have done it sooner.
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Jackie while in Perth go to a tackle shop and buy a Cathederal type Yabbie net. Then when you get to Kalgoorlie, ask some locals where there is a good Yabbie Dam. There are plenty around Kalgoorlie and not far out of town. A good feed of Yabbies and a couple of beers during the afternoon, and you can forget about the evening meal.
Good luck......Simmo.
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Good on you guys .. We have done the short trips interstate .. We are leaving late January clockwise to be in Northern Territory around May.. Thing we have to learn is to slow down .. Look around ..
Good on you guys .. We have done the short trips interstate .. We are leaving late January clockwise to be in Northern Territory around May.. Thing we have to learn is to slow down .. Look around ..
we found slowing down to be quite easy, especially when you have all the time in the world. There is so much beautiful country out there that you just want to hang around and take it all in. (ok i am going to make a confession here and admit that in some of the 24hr free camps if there were not many others around and heaps of room we actually had 24hrs each...my 24hrs then hubbys 24hrs)
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Slowing down seems to be the hardest thing for some people, and getting up at the crack of dawn! Why? Because they always have! I don't understand this, as I used to be up early, today for instance I was out of bed by eleven am, not sleeping, but it is raining, so why not read in the comfort f your warm bed?
Some pride themselves on being on the road at 7 am, again - why?
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Sounds great , I am very envious and look forward to be on the road sooner rather than later. Should be another couple of year at least :( . We love hearing from couple who are doing it . Wishing you a safe and happy trip
Slowing down seems to be the hardest thing for some people, and getting up at the crack of dawn! Why? Because they always have! I don't understand this, as I used to be up early, today for instance I was out of bed by eleven am, not sleeping, but it is raining, so why not read in the comfort f your warm bed?
Some pride themselves on being on the road at 7 am, again - why?
-- Edited by jules47 on Friday 30th of October 2015 03:08:34 PM
We tend to get up at the crack of dawn when travelling. Its a beautiful time of the day, peaceful and since we tend to travel to places in their warmer months its usually a lovely temperature. Doesn't mean we haven't slowed down, we just do our relaxing at a different time of day, I'm not adverse to a nanna nap in the afternoon. And you never run into noisy teenagers if you go for an early morning walk!
What I mean is staying in a nice place more than a day . We either go to sleep early or real late . We always have about 100 movies on hard drive plus sat TV .. Not that we watch that late at night .. Unless it's the rugby .. Lol
We stay at most places for a minimum of 2 nights. Quite often we only move around 50kms to the next place. Some folk drive 400-500kms per day, day in day out, stopping at CP's every night. All they've really seen is the dunnies & showers but they always say ''we've been there''. Naturally they know nothing about the place. LOL. They do know what the amenities block looks like though. LOL. Taking plenty of time is the key to experiencing this great country.
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we have met some people who just seem to drive from dawn til dusk but tell us they are 'seeing Australia'. I said to one lady that she must be seeing lots of emergency rooms in the hospitals because surely she is suffering from constant whiplash as i think thats the only way she is seeing anything as they zoom past the sights. She avoided me for the remainder of that evening, but i am sorry, i dont see how people who travel to that extent can be seeing anything.
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Spot on JackieP - we don't usually leave a camp until at least 10am, and start looking for a camp spot y 1pm, in that time we may have stopped to see something interesting, or for coffee.
However, we came across the Nullarbor in a bit of a hurry this time, by the time we got to our destination, we felt like we had jet lag!
