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Roadtrip stats
And so the roadtrip 2011 has ended. Here are some stats for you. 10,603 Km travelled 1,040 Litres of Fuel $1,669 spent on fuel 9.8 litres per 100km, average Most expensive fuel, $2.05 per litre (Balladonia WA ?) Average fuel price, $1.60 per litre Number of times tyres inflated and deflated, approximately a dozen. 497.7…
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Day 21 – follow the smell of the coffee
View Larger Map The final day in the roadtrip first took us east, back across the boarder to Mildura. Today was another 700 odd km day but we did make a few stops. We stopped in Mildura down at Lock 11 where we found it currently not active due to the river level being so…
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Day 20 – Trains, Grain and Jet Planes
View Larger Map Today was the second last day of this epic roadtrip and to be honest, it doesn’t really feel like I’ve been away for three weeks. Much of todays driving did seem to be going through grain country again although that turned into pasture and then fruit tree and vine. First detour today…
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Day 17 – 19 – Rock-eting along the road.
View Larger Map View Larger Map View Larger Map The last three days have seen us cover over 2000km on our journey towards home. That’s the problem when you travel so far, you have to travel back. Day 18 was the longest by far at over 1000km. Day 17, we did a two and a…
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Day 16 – a lazy Kalgoorlie Sunday
View Larger Map Today really was a lazy day. We left the motel around midday and went down to Boulder to look at the monthly market day. Doing some research last night, we found out that many of the museums in Boulder are currently closed due to earthquake damage. Evidently there was an earthquake on…
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Day 15 – Gold country
View Larger Map Today’s journey was a relatively short trip to Kalgoorlie, however in our usual style, we found plenty of detours to make the journey take a little longer. We headed via another huge rock formation called The Humps and up the 170km road to Marvel Loch. This is basically a small mining town…
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Day 14 – out to the wave
View Larger Map Day 14 took us down to the Perth coast. There was a sculpture thing on at Cottesloe beach all of March but we didn’t see more than what on the foreshore. The coffee in Cottesloe was horrible, as expected, and I’m now convinced the best coffee in Australian is in Melbourne (and…
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Kings Park Perth
In my ranting about the motel, I forgot to mention Kings Park. I’ve been there before but hadn’t walked around much of it. We spent a good few hours walking around and talking some shots of of the city from there. A Perth timelapse sunset from Kings Park
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Day 12 – 13 – Perth
View Larger Map View Larger Map Day 12 and 13 were spent getting to Perth and around Perth. The trip up saw us zigzagin inland and back to the coast. We went into Donnybrook, the apple capital of WA where they have streetlights in the shape of apples. There was supposed to be a…
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Day 11 – up and down the Margaret River region
View Larger Map We started the morning with a jaunt down to the Cape Leeuwin lighthouse to climb its 186 steps to the top. This is the most south-westerly point of mainland Australia and is where the Southern Ocean meets meets the Indian Ocean. A few interesting notes about this lighthouse: – It’s Australia’s tallest…