Diary notes while doing the Big One

Leaving from our home in Adelaide, our big one saw us travel to Darwin, before moving on to Perth where we meet up with our good friends Bruce and Maree, who accompanied us for the return leg across the Nullarbor back to Adelaide. We completed a total of 19,075kms and consumed 5,702.22 litres of auto gas during our trip.

If there was one thing that we learnt very quickly, it was that there is too much out there to see in one trip. To visit everything, would be to turn the trip into a task and not a holiday so we left some items to do next time round. Our travel itinerary was set up in such a way that it allowed us to move, add or delete days as were required which worked very well for us.

Our tow vehicle was a Nissan GU Patrol running on gas. Although the availability of gas on the trip was very good most of the time, it did cause some problems along the way. It did mean that we were required to carry two twenty litre jerry cans with us and at times we wondered if the extra petrol that we had was going to be enough. Our choice vehicle for this sort of trip would have to be without doubt, diesel.

The main highlights of our trip are as follows and are not necessarily in preferential order

• Alice Springs with it's MacDonnell Ranges .
• Yellow Waters at Kakadu.
• Kimberly area in the top of Western Australia.
• The big tides at Derby.
• Wildflowers near the Overlander Roadhouse and out from Geraldton.

We met a lot of lovely people during our trip all doing the same thing, and these people will remain in our memory for years to come. It is a big land out there, so if you are thinking of doing a similar trip to the one that we did, don't hesitate and just do it. As they say out there, travel safe and enjoy.

Our trip diary notes have been broken up into the following pages to make page loads as short as possible.

By clicking on the links above and you will be taken to that leg of our Big One to view the daily diary notes of our trip.

Our Travel Itinerary was a guide for us to follow so that we didn't suddenly find that we were a week short on time. The itinerary changed as we moved along during the nominated travel periods, so pre booking was at times not possible.

The path that we followed saw us leave Adelaide before going to Ayers Rock, Alice Springs, Kakadu, Darwin, Broome, Perth, Augusta, Albany, and finally back home to Adelaide. Our Tour Expenditure will give you a day by day cost breakdown of our trip.

For those who are either planning a trip to some of the areas that we visited, or just for the curious, check out the comprehensive collection of Fuel Prices that we collected as we moved around.

You can view the Park Prices of all of the Caravan Parks that we stopped in while we travelled around this beautiful country that we live in.

To view some of our photos for each leg of our trip, go to our Big One Snaps pages.

We have now compiled a total of eleven DVD's made up of our trip which will give us plenty of memories to look back on. As well as our eleven detailed DVD's, we have edited the footage to finish up with one single DVD of the trip highlights.

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