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follow the red line to see how we make our way around australia.<\/p>\n
the orange line is how we plan to continue … but that could change depending on how things turn out.<\/p>\n\n
waypoint<\/strong><\/td>| arrive<\/strong><\/td> | distance<\/strong><\/td> | notes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | total trip<\/strong><\/td> | 285 days<\/strong><\/td> | 40,445 km (incl side trips)<\/td> | 6,226 l diesel consumed (sorry climate!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | home<\/td> | 12 nov 2018<\/td> | 215 km<\/td> | home sweet home? or a second lap?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | fingal bay caravan park<\/td> | 8 nov 2018<\/td> | 398 km<\/td> | the last stop before we get home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | park beach caravan park coffs harbour<\/td> | 28 oct 2018<\/td> | 234 km<\/td> | so big and so quiet; this will be a great base for the next days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | byron holiday park<\/td> | 25 oct 2018<\/td> | 252 km<\/td> | we got into a traffic jam on the way! we haven't had one of those since ... april!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ocean view caravan park (landsborough)<\/td> | 22 oct 2018<\/td> | 148 km<\/td> | great views but very noisy (next to the road)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | tin can bay tourist park<\/td> | 20 oct 2018<\/td> | 106 km<\/td> | at the south tip of fraser island<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | pialba beachfront park<\/td> | 18 oct 2018<\/td> | 241 km<\/td> | hervey bay, the whale nursery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | captain cook holiday village<\/td> | 17 oct 2018<\/td> | 531 km<\/td> | stopped here to pat some kangaroos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | takarakka bush resort<\/td> | 15 oct 2018<\/td> | 285 km<\/td> | great park @ carnarvon gorge with amazing wildlife<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | anakie gemfields caravan park<\/td> | 14 oct 2018<\/td> | 371 km<\/td> | gemfields! gemfields!! gemfields!!!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | longreach tourist park<\/td> | 13 oct 2018<\/td> | 181 km<\/td> | got in really late, set up int he dark; there isn't much to see anyway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | winton tatts campground<\/td> | 12 october 2018<\/td> | 216 km<\/td> | the best park in winton ... maybe we should have gone with the bush camp option<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | hughenden allan terry caravan park<\/td> | 10 oct 2018<\/td> | 386 km<\/td> | the aircon is a life saver!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | townsville rowes bay park<\/td> | 3 oct 2018<\/td> | 332 km<\/td> | really quite right now, all the school kids have gone back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | malanda falls caravan park<\/td> | 2 oct 2018<\/td> | 77 km<\/td> | on the hunt for tree kangaroos ... and maybe another platypus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cairns big4 coconut resort<\/td> | 1 oct 2018<\/td> | 65 km<\/td> | post office is closed due to public holiday ... we have to stay for a night<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | big4 port douglas<\/td> | 30 sep 2018<\/td> | 416 km<\/td> | a long day across the bottom of the cape york peninsula<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cooktown holiday park<\/td> | 28 sep 2018<\/td> | 108 km<\/td> | via the bloomfield track; steep ascents & descents through the rainforest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | noah's beach daintree<\/td> | 26 sep 2018<\/td> | 9 km<\/td> | bush \/ beach camp in the rain forest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | lync haven daintree<\/td> | 24 sep 2018<\/td> | 147 km<\/td> | in the rainforest with lots of animals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cairns big4 coconut resort<\/td> | 15 sep 2018<\/td> | 77 km<\/td> | this park is the size of a smaller european country and has more entertainment options - wow!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | atherton woodlands big 4<\/td> | 13 sep 2018<\/td> | 151 km<\/td> | wet & cold ... is this good or bad?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | pinnarendi station<\/td> | 12 sep 2018<\/td> | 184 km<\/td> | great station stay; we'll have pizza tonight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cumberland historic chimney bush camp<\/td> | 11 sep 2018<\/td> | 351 km<\/td> | very nice camp by the side of the road with a chimney and a lagoon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | karumba point holiday park<\/td> | 10 sep 2018<\/td> | 502 km<\/td> | the park is pretty empty now, it's starting to get warm up here<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | adel's grove<\/td> | 8 sep 2018<\/td> | 531 km<\/td> | a very nice spot on the lawn hill creek<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | barkly homestead roadhouse<\/td> | 7 sep 2018<\/td> | 733 km<\/td> | a long long day through a not quite so interesting part of the territory<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | little roper stock camp<\/td> | 6 sep 2018<\/td> | 115 km<\/td> | close to the hot springs and lots of snakes to pat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | katherine - riverview park<\/td> | 3 aug 2018<\/td> | 304 km<\/td> | a few days in katherine before we start heading east<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | jaribu kakadu resort<\/td> | 1 sep 2018<\/td> | 0 km<\/td> | just across the road; we wanted to stay for the festival<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | jabiru anbinik resort<\/td> | 30 aug 2018<\/td> | 140 km<\/td> | soooooo hot here ...<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | mary river wilderness retreat<\/td> | 28 aug 2018<\/td> | 96 km<\/td> | there is a creek behind our van with some crocs in .... <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | free spirit resort<\/td> | 20 aug 2018<\/td> | 37 km<\/td> | not quite darwin, but close enough for us<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | berry springs -lakes tourist park<\/td> | 18 aug 2018<\/td> | 87 km<\/td> | quick stop before darwin; they have a wildlife park<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | wangi falls - bush camp<\/td> | 16 aug 2018<\/td> | 52 km<\/td> | nice bush camp right next to the falls<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | batchelor - banyan tree camp<\/td> | 14 aug 2018<\/td> | 130 km<\/td> | bush & tropical ... great mix.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | douglas hot springs - bush camp<\/td> | 13 aug 2018<\/td> | 196 km<\/td> | great camp, fantastic hot springs!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | katherine - shady lane tourist park<\/td> | 12 aug 2018<\/td> | 522 km<\/td> | arrived very late after a long day - just need a place to sleep<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | kununurra - ivanhoe caravan park<\/td> | 9 aug 2018<\/td> | 238 km<\/td> | not because we loved it so much but because we have schoolwork to do<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | bungle bungle caravan park<\/td> | 7 aug 2018<\/td> | 238 km<\/td> | as nice as a camp out here can be<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | kununurra - ivanhoe caravan park<\/td> | 31 jul 2018<\/td> | 121 km<\/td> | water, power, grass ... who knew there was such a place<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | home valley station<\/td> | 29 jul 2018<\/td> | 112 km<\/td> | a little more upmarket & with grassy sites<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ellenbrae station - bush camp<\/td> | 28 jul 2018<\/td> | 188 km<\/td> | nice setting in the bush; station has great scones<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | mount barnett - bush camp<\/td> | 26 jul 2018<\/td> | 87 km<\/td> | dusty but with a great swimming hole<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | imintji - bush camp<\/td> | 24 jul 20181<\/td> | 145 km<\/td> | very nice bush camp -but a noisy generator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | windjana gorge - bush camp<\/td> | 22 jul 2018<\/td> | 127 km<\/td> | great bush camp with flushing toilets and warm showers!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | derby - birdwood downs station<\/td> | 21 jul 2018<\/td> | 19 km<\/td> | horse riding in the kimberley - for nat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | derby - kimberley entrance park<\/td> | 19 jul 2018<\/td> | 217 km<\/td> | the gibb is waiting!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | broome caravan park<\/td> | 16 jul 2018<\/td> | 171 km<\/td> | back again - chasing more dino footprints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | dampier peninsula - whalesong camp<\/td> | 12 jul 2018<\/td> | 4 km<\/td> | amazing bush camp right on the cliffs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | dampier peninsula - middle lagoon<\/td> | 11 jul 2018<\/td> | 171 km<\/td> | a bit rough but it's really nice out here<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | broome caravan park<\/td> | 7 jul 2018<\/td> | 370 km<\/td> | nice clean park just out of town<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 80 mile beach - station stay<\/td> | 4 jul 2018<\/td> | 479 km<\/td> | the beach - 80 miles of it - is just over the dunes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | karratha - balmoral park<\/td> | 30 jun 2018<\/td> | 524 km<\/td> | we finally left ningaloo - and we miss it already!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | coral bay - people's park<\/td> | 27 jun 2018<\/td> | 152 km<\/td> | still enjoying the reef<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | exmouth - rac caravan park<\/td> | 23 jun 2018<\/td> | 50 km<\/td> | it's impossible to get a spot out in the national park, we had to come back to exmouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cape range np - ned's camp<\/td> | 18 jun 2018<\/td> | 50 km<\/td> | we had to set up in the wet - but it should be better tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | exmouth - rac caravan park<\/td> | 16 jun 2018<\/td> | 90 km<\/td> | safe bet before we go bush camping in cape range<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | bullara station camp<\/td> | 15 jun 2018<\/td> | 372 km<\/td> | got rave reviews on wikicamps - has the funkiest amenities we've seen and good burgers and coffee (not together)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | cheela station camp<\/td> | 14 jun 2018<\/td> | 108 km<\/td> | we left tom price late and this looked like a good option<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | tom price - tourist park<\/td> | 13 jun 2018<\/td> | 110 km<\/td> | back to get the windscreen fixed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | dales camp ground<\/td> | 10 jun 2018<\/td> | 110 km<\/td> | amazing bush camp right next to dales gorge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | tom price - tourist park<\/td> | 7 jun 2018<\/td> | 543 km<\/td> | arrived late & it was raining - no good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | coral bay - bayview cp<\/td> | 30 may 2018<\/td> | 233 km<\/td> | never been in such a crowded place - like sardines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | carnarvon - wintersun park<\/td> | 28 may 2018<\/td> | 440 km<\/td> | a long drive ... and there is really not much between geraldton and carnavon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | kalbarri - murchison river cp<\/td> | 27 may 2018<\/td> | 150 km<\/td> | the same park we stayed at when we were here first time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | geraldton - big4 sunset beach<\/td> | 23 may 2018<\/td> | 5 km<\/td> | nice park on the beach. staying to get the disco serviced. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | geraldton - ocean west<\/td> | 21 may 2018<\/td> | 402 km<\/td> | geraldton again. mum will fly out from here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | denham - ocean beach<\/td> | 17 may 2018<\/td> | 380 km<\/td> | denham is a lot nicer than i remember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | horrocks beach caravan park<\/td> | 16 may 2018<\/td> | 476 km<\/td> | nice, arrived just in time for sunset<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | perth - karrinyup caravan park<\/td> | 8 may 2018<\/td> | 405 km<\/td> | again .. need to get the auto box rebuilt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | geraldton - belair gardens<\/td> | 6 may 2017<\/td> | 198 km<\/td> | had to stop here when the gearbox refused to play nice<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | jurien bay - tourist park<\/td> | 4 may 2018<\/td> | 451 km<\/td> | a bungalow again ... i miss the karavan!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | busselton - beachlands park<\/td> | 30 apr 2018<\/td> | 245 km<\/td> | we're in a bungalow for a change; was cheaper for the 3 of us + oma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | perth - karrinyup caravan park<\/td> | 20 apr 2018<\/td> | 304 km<\/td> | finally! can't wait to see all our friends again.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | jarrahdene - bush camp<\/td> | 17 apr 2018<\/td> | 312 km<\/td> | nice camp among the karri trees, clean long drop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | denmark - ocean beach park<\/td> | 11 apr 2018<\/td> | 60 km<\/td> | huge park, green sites, great facilities - empty. why?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | albany - emu bay caravan park<\/td> | 6 apr 2018<\/td> | 179 km<\/td> | great park with new amenities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | bremer bay - caravan park<\/td> | 3 apr 2018<\/td> | 399 km<\/td> | large grassy sites, not far from the beach; might give the $400 orca tour a miss<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | esperance - bathers paradise park<\/td> | 28 mar 2018<\/td> | 307 km<\/td> | nice owners; nice & grassy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | fraser range station park<\/td> | 27 mar 2018<\/td> | 639 km<\/td> | extremely friendly park, loved it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | bunda cliffs - bush camp<\/td> | 26 mar 2018<\/td> | 570 km<\/td> | great spot but very windy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | streaky bay - caravan park<\/td> | 23 mar 2018<\/td> | 345 km<\/td> | great new park, lots to see here<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | memory cove - bush camp<\/td> | 21 mar 2018<\/td> | 53 km<\/td> | fantastic site, very rough track to get there<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | port lincoln - tourist park<\/td> | 20 mar 2018<\/td> | 340 km<\/td> | nice park just on the edge of the bay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | port augusta - discovery park<\/td> | 19 mar 2018<\/td> | 318 km<\/td> | well kept park, we'll only stay a night<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | adelaide shores - caravan park<\/td> | 15 mar 2018<\/td> | 475 km<\/td> | massive park with lots of fun things for kids<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | rawnsely park station<\/td> | 12 mar 2018<\/td> | 172 km<\/td> | clean park with a pool just south of the pound<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | orroroo - caravan park<\/td> | 11 mar 2018<\/td> | 330 km<\/td> | nice little camp & friendly owner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | broken hill - starview campground<\/td> | 9 mar 2018<\/td> | 63 km<\/td> | great bush camp near bh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | eldee station<\/td> | 7 mar 2018<\/td> | 162 km<\/td> | nice maybe not quite as advertised.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | copihollow - caravan park<\/td> | 5 mar 2018<\/td> | 257 km<\/td> | great lake side camp ground.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | mungo - main camp (bush)<\/td> | 4 mar 2018<\/td> | 112 km<\/td> | the best place to stay in mungo; showers @ the visitor center.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | mildura - caravan park<\/td> | 27 feb 2018<\/td> | 245 km<\/td> | staying in a bungalo; kk requires a few small repairs so we can't sleep in it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | big billy bore - bush camp<\/td> | 26 feb 2018<\/td> | 244 km<\/td> | great bush camp; we were the only ones at the camp!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | halls creek - tourist park<\/td> | 22 feb 2018<\/td> | 208 km<\/td> | great park; coffee at the reception & can order breklkie croissants from the bakery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | portland - caravan park<\/td> | 18 feb 2018<\/td> | 165 km<\/td> | loved portland; the weather was a bit of a let-down but the park was nice <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | port campbell - caravan park<\/td> | 13 feb 2018<\/td> | 119 km<\/td> | very nice park; the only downside was the daily invasion of people with little sense of privacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | kennett river - caravan park<\/td> | 11 feb 2018<\/td> | 203 km<\/td> | nice park, so many koalas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | melbourne big 4 dandenong tourist park<\/td> | 6 feb 2018<\/td> | 358 km<\/td> | not the greatest park but quiet enough<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | marlo caravan park<\/td> | 4 feb 2018<\/td> | 372 km<\/td> | what a very nice little park at the mouth of the snowy river.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | canberra alive tourist park<\/td> | 1 feb 2018<\/td> | 327 km<\/td> | the only caravan park in canberra. seriously.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | follow the red line to see how we make our way around australia. the orange line is how we plan to continue … but that could change depending on how things turn out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-blog","category-the-long-way-round"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trip_trackin_slide-56.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-2uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9579"}],"version-history":[{"count":98,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14469,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9579\/revisions\/14469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |