How much of Australia can you actually visit?

[willem]

I was just wondering - how much of our vast continent can you and I actually visit? When you cut out all the 'not allowed' areas like Aborigine land, forests whose tracks have been closed, military land, farmland, private land. How much can we actually go to? Does anyone have any figures on this?

Willem

[abaddonxi]

Dunno, but give us a call when you run out of places to go.:D:D

[dobbo]

I would love to live the life of a journeyman for a year and discover these places


but bills to pay, kids to feed

[Chucaro]

I have done a trip of 8 month with my wife in the BMW motorbike and only know a bit from Bundy to Adelaide and the Riverina :eek:
After that we lived and tour in a motorhome for 2 years and have done Tasmania to Bundaberg and still I do not know much about this area of Oz.
I think that easy will take me 20 years to know a bit of Oz and at the end I would need to start again :D
So I stopped thinking " how much of our vast continent can you and I actually visit"

[cal415]

Well it seems the areas we can actually visit seem to keep disappearing thanks to NPWS and the like.... Its disappointing when we cant see areas of our own country, especially when a lot of track closures are due to lack of track maintenance etc on there behalf then the point the finger at the 4wd drive community for "destroying" the tracks. :(

[clean32]

I would love to live the life of a journeyman for a year and discover these places


but bills to pay, kids to feed

What is your problem?? just sell the kids for scientific experiments, pay the bills. you will probably have a bit left over for a turbo as well. and go. LOL

[abaddonxi]

I would love to live the life of a journeyman for a year and discover these places


but bills to pay, kids to feed


What is your problem?? just sell the kids for scientific experiments, pay the bills. you will probably have a bit left over for a turbo as well. and go. LOL

Surely Stevo68'll take your livestock off your hands.

[clean32]

Surely Stevo68'll take your livestock off your hands.

i said the kids, not the missis. he still has to have some one to cook and dig the pit when traveling.

[abaddonxi]

i said the kids, not the missis. he still has to have some one to cook and dig the pit when traveling.

I was more thinking of the four horses of the apocalypse and the (plague) rat dog.

[Reads90]

well this is where i went on my last little trip around Aus. I found you could still go to alot of places where there is still a lot to see. Still alot i have not seen (red line is where we went )

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/558.jpg

[PAT303]

I'm with Reads,there is more than enough left to keep us busy. Pat

[jazzaD1]

well this is where i went on my last little trip around Aus. I found you could still go to alot of places where there is still a lot to see. Still alot i have not seen (red line is where we went )

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/08/558.jpg

how long did it take you to complete that journey?

[Reads90]

how long did it take you to complete that journey?


7 months and 40,000ks later :)

[Chucaro]

7 months and 40,000ks later :)

Bugger! in the way that I like touring and understand the area and the people that trip will take 20 years.
I was 4 weeks alone in a little spot arrounf the Wilson Promontory - Tarra Valley Victoria :eek:

[spudfan]

How about - How much of this site can you actually visit? It is huge. Still have not got around to parts of it yet!

[willem]

Yes. Yes. You can go down all the roads. But that misses the point. For instance, in Aboriginal reserves you can't go more than 50 metres off the road. Which means that most of the country you can't actually go to. You can drive past it but you can't actually visit the places themselves.

That is my question. How much can we actually visit? Has a large part of Australia been taken away from the population of Australia while we haven't been looking? Can we visit all the same places our fathers were able to visit in the 50s and 60s and 70s, or has much of it been closed off to us? I don't really know, but I'd like to find out.

Willem

[Lotz-A-Landies]

I would love to live the life of a journeyman for a year and discover these places
but bills to pay, kids to feedYou know Dobbo, if you don't feed the kids, after a little while you won't have to feed the kids. Similarly if you don't pay the bills you soon won't have a place to pay bills on. You would then be free to explore this great continent.

I'd investigate all the most out-of-the-way places first, because you'll surely have the authorities and debt collectors wanting to see the continent with you, or at least after you! :twisted:

It is all a matter of personal choice: whether you travel; or do other things like having kids and a place to live.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

well this is where i went on my last little trip around Aus. I found you could still go to alot of places where there is still a lot to see. Still alot i have not seen (red line is where we went )

What's that little bit at the bottom without any red lines on it? Is that part of Australia, can you still see it? :p

[stevo68]

Surely Stevo68'll take your livestock off your hands. For sure.......will let ya know when I need em :),

Regards

Stevo