Saturday, February 21, 2015

Planning for the Around Australia Trip

        




                                      
   
          

                                        Dixons and the Coles in the Flinders Ranges 2014

          

                     Red lines----- route that  the Coles and Dixons doing together
                      Blue lines -----route that the Dixons are doing on their own
                       Yellow lines----route that the Coles are doing on their own.
                                         
                              
       
 Even though we say that we are going to go around Australia, John and I will not be doing the coast of Queensland this time. Some of Western Australia will be inland as well. We did the coast highway going down to Perth in 2011. We are travelling the inland highway up from Kalgoolie.
Bob and Elaine are planning a different route during the trip. We will meet up at a certain point in Western Australia and leave them again in Queensland. The majority of the time we will travel together.
The plan is to leave Sydney on 31st May. 
In 2011 we did 18,000 Klms in four months. We expect to do about the same this year. We only went to Darwin in 2013. So It isn't on the itininary. 
Also we are driving over the Nullabour in the opposite direction, last time we were nearly at the end of the trip and coming East from Western Australia. This trip we will come home via Queensland and go through South Australia on the way over to the west. 
The whales should be calving at the Bight. It was my most memorable part of the crossing.