MATCH STATS
We have finally made it back home after 6 months on the road.
Thank you to the 6 families from the Port Macquarie 4WD club who trekked out to the Warrumbungles for the long weekend, to meet up with us and see us get home safely. It was a great weekend with friends - chatting, drinking, eating, drinking, watching the football grand finals and drinking. And the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Storm got up... yeah. (Damn Wallabies let us down for the trifecta though).
So here is a run down of our trip:
6 months, 179 days / 178 nights
we set up the camper 87 times (and packed it up 87 times too)
only spent one night in a hotel room in the West MacDonnell Ranges when Gavin was sick
visited 6 farmstays
camped in 34 national parks
stayed at 44 caravan parks (most expensive being at Anglesea on the Great Ocean Rd in Victoria)
stopped with friends in Port Hedland and Adelaide (thank you Biscuit & Rob and Jan & John)
drove 30,144km
4 states and 1 territory
71 tanks of fuel (average diesel price $1.72 per litre)
most expensive fuel was $2.33 at Kings Canyon in Central Australia (also the most expensive beer at $9.90 for a schooner - and yes I was thirsty)
Gavin says I need to mention fuel economy average 16.9L/100km (whatever that means??)
iconinc 4WD roads:
Mt Stirling Rd to Craig's Hut (Victorian High Country)
Great Ocean Rd (Victoria)
Googs Track (South Australia)
Oodnadatta Track (following the old Ghan railway South Australia / Northern Territory)
Merinee Loop Rd (Cenral Australia)
Gibb River Rd (Western Australia)
1,200 km across the Nullarbor Plain (Western Australia / South Australia)
iconic locations:
Victorian High Country
The Grampians
Lake Eyre (with some water in the south)
climbed Ayres Rock
Kakadu
Arnhem Land
jetboat through the Horizontal Falls
sunset at Cable Beach (highly over rated)
snorkelling in Ningaloo Reef
WA wildflowers
1 fishing charter - boys only
numerous fishing days in the tinny (Janet only had one)
2 helicopter flights (Janet only had one)
2 jetboat rides (Janet only had one)
2 sea plane rides (well of course I had two - I had to get home from the Horizontal Falls)
total fuel bill = $8,662.48
total accomodation bill = $5,137.30
the box it came in - PRICELESS
We have finally made it back home after 6 months on the road.
Thank you to the 6 families from the Port Macquarie 4WD club who trekked out to the Warrumbungles for the long weekend, to meet up with us and see us get home safely. It was a great weekend with friends - chatting, drinking, eating, drinking, watching the football grand finals and drinking. And the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Storm got up... yeah. (Damn Wallabies let us down for the trifecta though).
So here is a run down of our trip:
6 months, 179 days / 178 nights
we set up the camper 87 times (and packed it up 87 times too)
only spent one night in a hotel room in the West MacDonnell Ranges when Gavin was sick
visited 6 farmstays
camped in 34 national parks
stayed at 44 caravan parks (most expensive being at Anglesea on the Great Ocean Rd in Victoria)
stopped with friends in Port Hedland and Adelaide (thank you Biscuit & Rob and Jan & John)
drove 30,144km
4 states and 1 territory
71 tanks of fuel (average diesel price $1.72 per litre)
most expensive fuel was $2.33 at Kings Canyon in Central Australia (also the most expensive beer at $9.90 for a schooner - and yes I was thirsty)
Gavin says I need to mention fuel economy average 16.9L/100km (whatever that means??)
iconinc 4WD roads:
Mt Stirling Rd to Craig's Hut (Victorian High Country)
Great Ocean Rd (Victoria)
Googs Track (South Australia)
Oodnadatta Track (following the old Ghan railway South Australia / Northern Territory)
Merinee Loop Rd (Cenral Australia)
Gibb River Rd (Western Australia)
1,200 km across the Nullarbor Plain (Western Australia / South Australia)
iconic locations:
Victorian High Country
The Grampians
Lake Eyre (with some water in the south)
climbed Ayres Rock
Kakadu
Arnhem Land
jetboat through the Horizontal Falls
sunset at Cable Beach (highly over rated)
snorkelling in Ningaloo Reef
WA wildflowers
1 fishing charter - boys only
numerous fishing days in the tinny (Janet only had one)
2 helicopter flights (Janet only had one)
2 jetboat rides (Janet only had one)
2 sea plane rides (well of course I had two - I had to get home from the Horizontal Falls)
total fuel bill = $8,662.48
total accomodation bill = $5,137.30
the box it came in - PRICELESS
