The Epic Australian Road Trip
Here’s a comparison of the planned itinerary for our Australian roadtrip from Sydney to Perth (with sidetrips up to Cairns and Alice Springs/Uluru!) against what the actually itinerary ended up being, along with links to the related posts.
| Date | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| September | ||
| 27 | Drive from Sydney to Jervis Bay | Sydney to Jervis Bay, Pebbly Beach, Batemans Bay |
| 28 | Jervis Bay/Pebbly Beach/Lakes Entrance? | To Lakes Entrance |
| 29 | Another day along the coast and/or Drive to Melbourne | To Melbourne |
| 30 | Melbourne | Melbourne |
| October | ||
| 1 | Melbourne | Melbourne |
| 2 | Melbourne | Melbourne (night to airport) |
| 3 | Fly to Alice Springs | Flew to Alice Springs (6:50am) |
| 4 | Camping tour to Uluru/Kings Canyon/Kata Tjuta | The Rock Tour |
| 5 | Camping tour to Uluru/Kings Canyon/Kata Tjuta | The Rock Tour |
| 6 | Camping tour, return to Alice Springs in evening | The Rock Tour, back to A.S. in evening |
| 7 | Fly back to Melbourne | Flew to Melbourne (8:40am) |
| 8 | Melbourne | Melbourne |
| 9 | Melbourne/Fly to Cairns | Melbourne (9:20pm flight to Cairns) |
| 10 | Cairns | Cairns |
| 11 | Cairns/Great Barrier Reef or up to Cape Tribulation | Cape Tribulation |
| 12 | Cape Tribulation? | Cape Tribulation (Cairns in evening) |
| 13 | Cairns/Great Barrier Reef or Cape Tribulation | Great Barrier Reef |
| 14 | Cairns | Cairns, midnight flight to Melbourne |
| 15 | Fly back to Melbourne | Melbourne |
| 16 | Rent caravan, start drive on Great Ocean Road to Apollo Bay | Picked up van, Great Ocean Road to Port Campbell |
| 17 | Great Ocean Road | Finished GOR, drove to Grampians |
| 18 | GOR -> Halls Gap/Grampians National Park | Grampians National Park |
| 19 | Grampians NP, drive to Coonawarra for the night | Grampians, The Coorong, to Merinigie |
| 20 | Drive to Cape Jervis | Drove/ferry to Kangaroo Island |
| 21 | Ferry to Kangaroo Island | Kangaroo Island |
| 22 | Kangaroo Island | Kangaroo Island |
| 23 | Kangaroo Island | Kangaroo Island |
| 24 | Kangaroo Island, ferry back, drive to McLaren Vale | Kangaroo Island, ferry back, drove to McLaren Vale |
| 25 | McLaren Vale | McLaren Vale |
| 26 | Adelaide | Drove to Adelaide |
| 27 | Adelaide | Morning in Adelaide, then to Port Augusta |
| 28 | Nullarbor | Drove to Ceduna (Nullarbor) |
| 29 | Nullarbor | Drove to Eucla (Nullarbor) |
| 30 | Nullarbor | To Fraser Range Station (Nullarbor) |
| 31 | Nullarbor | To Esperance |
| November | ||
| 1 | Esperance/Cape Le Grand/Cape Arid/Hellfire Bay/etc. | Cape Le Grand National Park |
| 2 | Esperance/Cape Le Grand/Cape Arid/Hellfire Bay/etc. | To Albany |
| 3 | Esperance/Cape Le Grand/Cape Arid/Hellfire Bay/etc. | To Denmark |
| 4 | Fitzgerald River National Park | Tree Top Walk/Walpole/Quinninup |
| 5 | Stirling Range/Porongurup National Parks | Pemberton |
| 6 | Albany | Augusta/Margaret River |
| 7 | Walpole/Valley of the Giants | Busselton |
| 8 | D’Entrecasteaux National Park or Pemberton | Bunbury |
| 9 | Augusta/Cape Leeuwin | To Lancelin |
| 10 | Margaret River | The Pinnacles/Cervantes, back toward Perth |
| 11 | Margaret River | Midland/Swan Valley |
| 12 | Dunsborough/Cape Naturaliste | Fremantle/night in Kingsley |
| 13 | to Perth | Perth |
| 14 | Perth |
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