Things must be a bit quiet out west and up north at the moment. Over the last few weeks I have been bombarded with emails and texts from the major providers offering cut price stays on locations that would normally be chokkers this time of the year.
I am heading out west and then up north in a few days time and was thinking that I would have to put up with the hordes but maybe not.
Is anyone who may be out west in NSW or north in Qld outback able to give a report.
Our recent trip southward from the Cape to Vic, via mid western Qld & western NSW was fairly 'quiet' traffic wise. The occasional CP's we stayed in were far from full. This was about 5 to 6 weeks ago.
-- Edited by Cuppa on Friday 23rd of June 2023 11:08:24 AM
Maybe because the CP's have got to dam greedy. Looking yesterday at a CP 40k west of Rockhampton $56 a night. Seriously. Most of the Rocky area the same
Things must be a bit quiet out west and up north at the moment. Over the last few weeks I have been bombarded with emails and texts from the major providers offering cut price stays on locations that would normally be chokkers this time of the year.
I am heading out west and then up north in a few days time and was thinking that I would have to put up with the hordes but maybe not.
Is anyone who may be out west in NSW or north in Qld outback able to give a report.
Flood damage?
My brother was out in the Simpson in early May and had to change his planned route due to tracks being closed and I saw yesterday that Lawn Hill is now shut for flood remediation works and won't open till next year at the earliest.
i think it would take a fair bit of adjusting leaving the life you had up there and returning to suburbia and routine Cuppa.
I know when I have spent considerable time in remote areas or overseas, I always find it difficult to get back into supposed normality and the day to day hack.
It seems to be a bit slower start this year....who knows why....alot of vans on the road now heading past Palmer River Roadhouse to Lakeland and beyond, but its happening.
I know as I live here and see the traffic .....just returned from my travels
i think it would take a fair bit of adjusting leaving the life you had up there and returning to suburbia and routine Cuppa.
I know when I have spent considerable time in remote areas or overseas, I always find it difficult to get back into supposed normality and the day to day hack.
After 5 years away I would have thought the same DMaxer, but we are not in suburbia as such (rural suburbia surrounded by 5 & 10 acre blocks) & no particular routine required. Essentially we are 'just in another place'. Quite different to previous returns from overseas travel when culture shock has, on occasions, been like hitting a brick wall.
The biggest differences this time around is that it is not warm, we have to accomodate more visits to & from others who we haven't seen for a long time, there is more traffic on the roads when we go out, but the main thing is the medical merry go round, catching up on tests/examinations etc which have been well overdue, & dealing with medical stuff which only made an appearance since leaving the north. Bursitis in both shoulders & 'frozen shoulder' on one side, in addition to Polyarthralgia of unknown cause for me & a cancer scare for MrsTea (which thankfully is all good).
The 'culture shock' was, I suppose mainly gradual, on the way down. Ballarat itself has however changed a lot, with many more houses & people, new roads & shopping centres. Probably the biggest single 'hit' was our first visit to the 'local' Woolies! Huge & way too much choice, unnecessary packaging etc dictated by the need to sell, rather than the need to supply.
We had done a pretty good job of 'leaving' & 'recommissioning' our accomodation was remarkably easy. Everything just worked with the exception of a couple of pedestal fans (blades UV affected & flew to bits within seconds of being switched on). The fridge door seal which had distorted with the door being left open had come good thanks to a friend who discovered it when we had the power switched back on prior to arriving home, he used some of my large clamps to keep the door closed, & getting the NBN reconnected was simple. Everything was just as we'd left it, remarkably dust free, no rodents, & just an influx of ladybugs on the bedroom carpet! Discovering stuff we'd forgotten we had was quite a pleasure.
Tv has again become part of our life, but it doesn't appear that we have missed much.
Access to my workshop & tools & being able to obtain stuff from shops when needed rather than online & waiting for delivery is a pleasant change. After 5 years & 5 wet seasons our car & Tvan need a bit of freshening up, which I am quite enjoying pottering away at (as the shoulders allow).
If all goes to plan we expect to head off again early 2024 in a new (to us) travelling rig. The sort of travel we have become accustomed to over the past few years is such that 'adaptation' has become the norm & here we are simply adapting (for a while) once again.
