Where to go when it gets hot?
Submitted: Saturday, Jun 19, 2004 at 20:21
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motherhen
As much as i'd love to be touring the
Kimberley or Northern Territory this winter with our Bushtracker caravan, financial year stuff means i cannot take holidays now. Next opportunity is after Christmas - but most of Oz is too hot to explore in summer. We are in the West, so it takes a slice out of the holiday travelling East and returning. Where can we go when it is so hot. We like to drive around 4-5 hours per day, to allow time for walking, climbing, sightseeing, and i can't cope when it's too hot out there. We like to get away from it all and explore oz. Any suggestions? Oh to win Lotto and leave work all behind!
Reply By: Member - DickyBeach - Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 00:37
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 00:37
Motherhen, I apologise in advance for "lecturing" or "preaching" but in my early working life I, too, was bugged by end of FY accounting stuff (I'm a beanie), missing out on heaps of skiing holidays and I vowed that when I had the clout I'd do something about it. As it happened all my jobs after that were as CFO with US subsidiaries and the Yanks INSISTED that end of FY reports be in by the usual 5th working day and it forced us to implement first class procedures and disciplines and so the problem was made to disappear. These were $100-250m companies. End of Lecture.
"Bushtracker" pretty much means away from the coast where roads don't require a real caravan, but aren't there exceptions around WA's southwest cornercoastlines? We scratched the surface there with our
Kimberley Kamper last year and, rightly or wrongly, assumed (dangerous) there would be plenty of opportunities for future away-from-it-all travel. Not so?
What size Bushtracker is it?
DickyBeach
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Follow Up By: motherhen - Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 00:54
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 00:54
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Reply By: Member - Camper (SA) - Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 19:43
Tuesday, Jun 22, 2004 at 19:43
Motherhen'
If you get to SA put some money aside and take the ferry to Kangaroo Is.
Spend some real time there not like the bus trippers.
Plenty of great walks, remote beaches,stunning headlands, birdwatching, echidnas crossing the road ahead, skippies galore and the occaisional goanna.
Campsites are good and the people friendly especially if the know you are staying awhile.
Because it's an Island it has cool weather most of the time even when the famous SA hot northerlies blow.
Cheerio,
Camper
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