So many places

You dont say for how long. hope you intend over 9 months. Northwest cape & Ningaloo Reef are great even if you dont snorkel. The wet season in north aust is a wonderful experience. We locals love it. Not as hot as you are led to believe, as it is mostly overcast and breezy. Local flooding may cause delay for a day or so when on the road, but if you are delayed you will have good company. So it looks like you need over a year, or another trip.

Hi wemont
You don’t say how long you will be travelling for & whether you are towing anything or not or whether you can be self sufficient. What type of vehicle you have can determine where you can go. Will you be going off road or staying on the bitumen? Many of the better places to visit are via rough corrugated roads.

There are too many variables with out knowing further details.
You will still enjoy yourself if you don’t have a 4x4 as many folk here will tell you.

I haven’t visited Vic yet, so I can’t comment on what to see down that way.

If you do a search in ‘Places’ on this forum you will get an idea of temps & rainfall etc. Also check out road reports if necessary.

We have a Camps Australia book that has full list cheap van parks <$25 & free camping places if you can’t get a park with your 4 legged friend, or just want to get away from the crowded van parks. January is still school holidays.
There’s a list of dog friendly van parks on Badger’s web site – it’s linked with another van forum – just follow the links when you google.

We visited information centres in most major towns & got booklets for that area & for the next region in the direction you’re going. Word of mouth from travellers going in the opposite direction from you is also great.
Most national Parks don’t allow dogs, but I think some folk find dog kennels for that duration if they want to visit those areas. We visited dozens of NP’s on our trip as they’re just beautiful places to be in.
I’m not sure about Vic & SA, but you can purchase NP passes for a set duration to lighten the wallet long term.

You can spend a lot of your spare time reading the many blogs on this forum that are great reading as part of your research.Mine is www.ournomadicways.blogspot.com for some of the Murray River to Adelaide, western ½ of SA, plus WA & NT.

Hope you enjoy your trip. The pre trip excitement is almost like a kid in a toy shop
Cheers
Sue

G'day wemont
Irrespective of other advice, all good and helpful, be aware the first 3 months of the trip, if an extended one, may be/will be HOT weather everywhere. Sometimes over 40 degrees.
If you also have a dog with you then it will require some consideration for the camping situations.