Thread: Five Week Tour of Australia

Where are you starting from??
What time of year??
What is your/her "Must see" list??

I shipped my 110 in from the UK & toured for 6 mths in '05 so I've got a fair idea of where you're coming from.

M

depends on what you want to see and exactly when your comming...

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ID do the coast of queensland about then... say from cairns/townsville down to the brissy area...

The southeast (vic/nsw) will be in winter and are about due for a rough one if they dont cop it this year (people have been saying that for years tho)

The north will be dry but that in itself can be pretty spectacular.

Id count most of the south west out as a lot of the tracks and parks will be closed for the winter months. but start at say ,mandurah and head north up the coast then across to darwin and you'll get a nice selection from some nice forrestry stuff through the desert into the wetlands. IF you have the time to cut back down and out you could get some rainforrest in as well by coming back down the east coast.

a week and a bit up the west coast, a week at the top end and a couple of weeks down the east, a sampler of australia.

But no matter where you are your not far from some other landy lover who will help out locally.

July / August 2008 time we SHOULD be in NT / WA region also.

From what I have been told this is the best time for the Kimberly region and the West Coast.

LRH

West coast is very windy and hot in the summer months which makes fishing a pain in the arrzz.......As LRH said, go in the winter.

Also summer is bad for cyclones (flooded roads) etc of course in the north.

For 5 weeks, you could take the track from Perth to Cairns... That'd give you a fair intro to the outback. Then drop down the east cost, Fraser & then the big cities.

Otherwise, something like the Oodnadatta & Tanami followed by the Gulf route to Cairns.

In that short time frame, I wouldn't bother with Cape York but you must get over to Fraser.

M

Bungle Bungle, West Aus
Cable Beach Broome, West Aus
Litchfield Park, Northern Territory
Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory
Fraser Island, Queensland
Just a few suggestions

Thanks folks,

I will be in Oz for about 6 months but unfortunately Barbara can only be there for five weeks as she has to work LOL! (Someone has to keep me (and my Land Rovers) in the manner we have become accustomed to)

Camel Landy can you give me any clues/info about shipping a 110 out to Oz?


Regards


Leeds

It depends where you head out from but I go from Perth, WA to Broome then accross Gibb River Road into Northern Territory and back to Perth in 4 weeks but that involves driving 8 days out of 10.

It's a big place and matters such as do you need to be back where you started at the end etc make a big difference. If you could head out from one city with your wife and then she flies back home from another city 5 weeks later that means you can see a lot more. July/August I definitely think the Top End (Northern WA, NT, Northern Qld) is what you're after.

cheers

J