Mark _australia said...andersbq said...tomp said...
THANKS all for the feedback.
AJ, for your OZ trip what type of vehicle did you use (+ trailer?) and over what time frame? How far into QLD did you go and can a regular car make the anti-clockwise trip in summer season across the top end or from Alice Springs to mid coast WA.
If we did any OZ trip then fuel is not an issue as the car is leased so it would prob be car + box type trailer.
It has not been any problems crossing Australia for the last 25 years during the summer,
either south or north the roads are good for ordinary cars. In some places you might want to do some detours to the best surfspots though... The first time I crossed the country was in 1989 in a Holden Gemini without A/C and 4 boards on the roof. We stopped in Adelaide and Norseman when we crossed Nullabor. In the middle, where to road is straight for hours we met a Japanese rollerskater..
It was a bit hot in NT, but that was the only problem. Well I hit a dead big dead animal in the middle of the night on a 26 hour stint between Katherine and Cairns, the car stunk for 3 weeks. Do not drive 2500 km in one stint!
Sorry but I dispute the north bit. In the wet season (summer for the rest of Oz) trying to travel up north (as in the very top end) can result in impassable roads for weeks and that is in a
well equipped 4WD.
To say that you can travel in summer across the top end in a normal car can get somebody killed.
Alice across like you did , yes. But people may read your post to mean Kununurra to Darwin and some of that could be really really dangerous.
I wonder if you guys really have toured your own country? I have crossed the north trek, Port Headland, Broome, Kunururra, Darwin, Mt Isa, in January. No problem at all except of 1 million flies and the heat. No 4WD required if you stay on the roads.
