Are there any Australians on here?

Hi jongood,

Yep Aussie here, oy oy oy. I hate that! lol. I'm going the other way, I'll be in UK/Europe in March. Anyway it's not about me.

I'd start in Adelaide and head east along the beautiful coastline and the Great Ocean Road. Catch a car ferry across from Geelong to Sorrento and check out the Mornington Peninsular, love the hot springs there and if you're into golf well your in heaven. Then on to Phillip Island and see the pengiuns. I haven't personally done the next section but have wanted to follow the coast all the way around and up to Sydney. And if you want to continue from there head up to the Gold Coast where I live and call in for a cuppa, although I'll be in Europe lol

Of course by this stage you're way over beach towns, so you might want to check out the outback. I can't tell you much about it, 10 minutes in and I'm bored. But I have friends that have circumnavigated Aus and they loved it.

Whatever you do it'll be great! We're a friendly lot here.

John
 
Thanks guys, theres a lot to digest here. We're thinking about 6 weeksish in a mh starting in Brisbane end September and driving down to Sydney and then on to Melbourne and great ocean road to Adelaide, do you thinks 6 weeks is enough?
 
Yes it sounds reasonable. I’m just not sure on logistics of visiting the larger Cities, of how near you can camp. We stayed in Apartments in the cities and only had the Moho for the long drive from Sydney to Brisbane and beyond. There’s a lot to see in Sydney it’s huge probably nearly as big as London.

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Yes I went on that the last time I almost persuaded my wife, but it seem a bit low volume, they seemed more interested in the kit than the travel. One of the things Im after is an aussie P4N, S4S etc, we used the rankers app in NZ but seems it only does WA
You need WIKI camping.
 
Thanks guys, theres a lot to digest here. We're thinking about 6 weeksish in a mh starting in Brisbane end September and driving down to Sydney and then on to Melbourne and great ocean road to Adelaide, do you thinks 6 weeks is enough?
Starting our next Aussie venture in Brisbane in September heading north then West along the Top End.

Surprising how different people see a country. We have been many many times, in fact just back.

6 weeks for what you have planned. The East side of Aussie is the most populated. Out of the towns and citys the roads are generally very quiet.
 
Great Ocean Road starts about 10/15 ks west of Torquay.
It's only about 200ks long.
Lorne is a great place for walkabouts.
Do it slowly. We have done it 4 times. Love it.
Great maps to buy are the HEMA maps, great detail, has all the camp sites on.
We never booked in advance (day before at most) and was never turned away. Always sites and always ehu. ALL sites have camp kitchens and BBQs to use.
1738769809384.webp
 
We spent six months travelling around Australia in 2006 in a motorhome. I know it's a long time ago and it was before apps were in regular use but we found a particularly useful book was Camps Australia Wide.
I see it's now available in app form, so you might like to check it out. www.campsaustraliawide.com/app/
We rarely stayed in caravan parks. Wild camping (or freedom camping) is so easy and safe. Don't make the mistake we did. We gathered sticks to use on the barbecue and managed to pick up a Huntsman spider that scared the living daylights out of us when it dropped from the overhead locker and landed in the bed. Don't tell me they're harmless. It certainly didn't look it.
Be aware that a lot of the hire companies do not allow you to drive on dirt roads and they check under the vans for bull dust. It's almost inevitable that you will gather dust underneath because you have to go off the tar seal when a massive road train is coming straight at you.
Wikicamps App is useful in Oz.

Used by lots of Ozzie's, (from an Ozzie living in Europe but returns for a few months travel every year, and in Oz now until the end of March).

Suggest driving anti-clockwise up the East Coast, over the top to Broome and down to Perth, great trip.

But not in the wet season 😱

They have just had 2 metres of rain in the last couple of weeks and flooding is extensive in the North 🥴

So a rubby ducky is useful to travel on the highway right now 😂

And a few crocodiles washed into people's back yards, so be careful where you step when you alight from the van 🤣

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Queensland is very humid a lot of the time outside of winter. I bought my Australian Hymer in Brisbane and drove it down through Sydney and the Hume Highway to Melbourne, then to the Geelong ferry to Tasmania. Pretty boring drive, only saw the coast once for a short time between Brisbane and Sydney. I did do it fast over a few days, so maybe with more time it'd be more interesting.

Another thing I forgot re. fuel consumption is whereas in France you can usually dawdle along at 80 kmph which is great for sight seeing, easy driving and consumption, here you'll want to drive faster (to get it over with) and because if you drive slower you'll have people behind trying to get past (unless it's multiple lane, but even then you could be holding up trucks). The roads are more likely to have a shoulder, but that'd be gravel and an unpredictable surface.

I don't know that I'd come all that way from Europe to look at our cities. They are different (more like US cities being mostly built post car), but what's really different about Australia is the country and space.

If you want to see Tasmania, book a ferry spot well before you need it (particularly if you have a motorhome). A day sailing is usually cheaper as you don't need a cabin.

Oh and the flight is a killer.
 
Just a point, when you get to Melbourne try and find a few hours to go to Ballarat and Sovereign Hill.
If you have not already been google for details.
 
Queensland is very humid a lot of the time outside of winter. I bought my Australian Hymer in Brisbane and drove it down through Sydney and the Hume Highway to Melbourne, then to the Geelong ferry to Tasmania. Pretty boring drive, only saw the coast once for a short time between Brisbane and Sydney. I did do it fast over a few days, so maybe with more time it'd be more interesting.

Another thing I forgot re. fuel consumption is whereas in France you can usually dawdle along at 80 kmph which is great for sight seeing, easy driving and consumption, here you'll want to drive faster (to get it over with) and because if you drive slower you'll have people behind trying to get past (unless it's multiple lane, but even then you could be holding up trucks). The roads are more likely to have a shoulder, but that'd be gravel and an unpredictable surface.

I don't know that I'd come all that way from Europe to look at our cities. They are different (more like US cities being mostly built post car), but what's really different about Australia is the country and space.

If you want to see Tasmania, book a ferry spot well before you need it (particularly if you have a motorhome). A day sailing is usually cheaper as you don't need a cabin.

Oh and the flight is a killer.
So whats Queensland weather like in October please? Our thinking is that if we start in Queensland and go South we will be partially mitigating the temperature rises? We're not considering Tasmania at this point but who knows :LOL:
 
Just a point, when you get to Melbourne try and find a few hours to go to Ballarat and Sovereign Hill.
If you have not already been google for details.
Looks good thanks. Also poring through wikicamps. Noises from housekeeping dept are also sounding hopeful🤞
 
Be funny if we bumped into each other in Brisbane.
I go to the 3 cafes on the A49 near Whitchurch in Bertie or the bike quite often. Preferance is Ma Bakers.

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I'm not overly familiar with Brisbane weather, but have spent a few weeks there on a few occasions over the last 18 months. I think October is 'shoulder season' weather wise, so you could have anything. From what I understand 'winter' is lovely (by UK and Tasmanian standards), but when I've been there at other times it's been nice, but at times into the mid 30's and very humid (basically semi tropical wet season). It's bearable as long as you have air con.

The further south you go (approaching summer) the warmer it gets, but drier air - I find that preferable. Unless you go as far as Tassie, that's usually cooler than the mainland. A good Tassie summer is like a good French summer. A hot mainland summer can be worse than a hot French summer. I mean sustained very hot days. The hottest I've been in was 49 C baling hay on my dads farm. You wont hit that if you're doing 6 weeks from October, but will likely get into the 30's.
 
Be funny if we bumped into each other in Brisbane.
I go to the 3 cafes on the A49 near Whitchurch in Bertie or the bike quite often. Preferance is Ma Bakers.
I sometimes go to Ma Bakers Bike or Bug. Will pm when We're back and it looks like a good day - insh allah :LOL:
 
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I'm not overly familiar with Brisbane weather, but have spent a few weeks there on a few occasions over the last 18 months. I think October is 'shoulder season' weather wise, so you could have anything. From what I understand 'winter' is lovely (by UK and Tasmanian standards), but when I've been there at other times it's been nice, but at times into the mid 30's and very humid (basically semi tropical wet season). It's bearable as long as you have air con.

The further south you go (approaching summer) the warmer it gets, but drier air - I find that preferable. Unless you go as far as Tassie, that's usually cooler than the mainland. A good Tassie summer is like a good French summer. A hot mainland summer can be worse than a hot French summer. I mean sustained very hot days. The hottest I've been in was 49 C baling hay on my dads farm. You wont hit that if you're doing 6 weeks from October, but will likely get into the 30's.
My brother lived in Adelaide in the 70's and said sometimes the nights could get hotter than the day as after dusk they would get a northerly wind bringing all the heat south from the desert.
 
Yes Adelaide is the dry heat (and it can get very hot there) vs Brisbane which is more tropical (though strictly speaking sub-tropical).

The two things that are hard to get your head around is how big it is and therefore the range of climates and how much closer to the equator it is.

This site is interesting to show that:

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Yes Adelaide is the dry heat (and it can get very hot there) vs Brisbane which is more tropical (though strictly speaking sub-tropical).

The two things that are hard to get your head around is how big it is and therefore the range of climates and how much closer to the equator it is.

This site is interesting to show that:

Interesting, but how do you remove countries that you have picked? My map is getting cluttered with outlines.
 
When you load the site it says to right click to delete. Or I found on my Mac clicking two fingers on the trackpad when the cursor is on the country you want to remove does it (my Mac might be set to have two fingers emulate a right click).
 
Yes Adelaide is the dry heat (and it can get very hot there) vs Brisbane which is more tropical (though strictly speaking sub-tropical).

The two things that are hard to get your head around is how big it is and therefore the range of climates and how much closer to the equator it is.

This site is interesting to show that:

So is adelaide likely to be hotter than Brisbane in November?
 
So is adelaide likely to be hotter than Brisbane in November?
Adelaide will be about 4/5c cooler than Bris.......................but then again with temps up and down and all over the place it could even be the opposite.
But mid 25c in Ad to 30c in BRi + -
 

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