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Making Your Itinerary

Before you embark upon the logistics of planning for your trip (vehicle setup, camping gear) it is essential that you have made some sort of an itinerary.

lovell21

hi, can i just say this website is FANTASTIC, i have answers to just about every question i had. heres another 1, we are planning a trip to drive around aus in 2011 mainly following Highway 1,we only have 3 months to travel and we realise we will miss some great places off the beaten track but the time frame stands and we will never have this opp again. we are planning this trip carefully including where and how long to stay and driving hours per day, i have a 4x4 deisel auto 2008 holden colorado and a camping trailer with a water tank and battery power. i will be travelling with my boyfriend and our 2 dogs. what i really need to know now is the best time to travel according to the weather. i can leave any time from feb 2011 and have to be back by dec 24 2011. we will be leaving from melb vic and travelling clockwise. could anyone suggest the best 3 months to do this trip? A big thankyou for the help so far!!!

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Reply By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 13:31

Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 13:31

Hi lovell2, for me I would do May June & July so that I spent as much of the cold period up the North as possible without having too much rain doing the Southern half.

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Reply By: Member - Tony B (QLD) - Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 18:51

Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 18:51

Dunworkin hit the mark for the best months, but from April - august and somway into september is all good. Give us a post a couple of years from now - that is seriously long term planning you are doing. You will need all the 3 months just to drive around highway one with a few sidetracks. Australia in the South is usually wet in winter. So it might be better to leave it a bit latter in the year and travel anticlockwise with the wind to save fuel southeasterlies up the Eastern Coast. Winter in the north is the best time of year. Plan to get to South of Wa at the end of winter and there is not so much rain & South Westerly winds. Cheers Tony

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Reply By: Member - Craig M (QLD) - Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:38

Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:38

Good to see you are giving the tropics a miss during the wet season. It is hot and wet outside at the moment......very uncomfortable without a/c. We give camping outside a miss between mid october and easter. Too damn hot and wet. There are those , however, who camp up here all year round. If you must then head inland about 150k's to give the costal humidity a miss.
happy travels.

craig

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Reply By: aussifan - Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:47

Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:47

Hi Lovell21,

I would concentrate myself just on particulary parts of Aus.
We did a tour about 3/4 month with a start in Perth-red centre-Rockhamton-Brisbane-Sydney-Melbourne-Phillip Island-Mt. Eccles NP-Murray River-Oodnadatta Track-Esperence-Nationalparks in this area upp to Perth. If you have time over i rekommend Pinaccles, Steep Point, Denham,Cape Peron...upper to the north the weather will be not so good for travel. The wet season begins and i dont think that you will have the same great time if you are just in a hurry.

Decide just a part instead and it will be the tour of your live...that is what it is for us when we did it in 2001.

Sorry for my english...I´m not a native english speaker..:-)

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Reply By: Member - Warfer (VIC) - Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:59

Sunday, Nov 30, 2008 at 22:59

*hi, can i just say this website is FANTASTIC, i have answers to just about every question i had.*

Hiya Lovell

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Reply By: lovell21 - Monday, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:49

Monday, Dec 01, 2008 at 06:49

thanks everyone for the tips, we realise we will miss a few things with the 3 month time frame but as we have to take the dogs we are restricted with what we can do and where we can go ie, no national parks and where we can stay or camp. so its mainly stop, look around, take photos and move on. we will be able to stay 2 or 3 nights at some places to do some fishing and relax. we never thought of going anti-clockwise, don't no why. thanks again and i'm sure i'll be back with more questions as the trip gets closer.

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