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