Friday, January 3, 2014

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LOW COST TRAVEL ... WALKING FOR MORE WITH LESS MONEY SINCE SEPTEMBER 2011 WE ARE IN ROUTE!
In the 3 months we were in Australia we moved overland with Relocation, which as we have in another post, it's a system to relocate rental vehicles. See details here. We recommend this option (with relocation or normal rent) for paths "short", shave ice for example, in several stages between Brisbane and Adelaide. We were a bit repentant of making the journey Adelaide - Perth (6 days, more than 3,000 km), and it worked shave ice out quite expensive for the price and gas mileage and what you see on the road, did not compensate us. That best money we would have spent on going to Uluru, for example ... So what I recommend is to do well the calculation of which involves long distances traveled by land in Australia, before defining shave ice the path to follow. We leave some information that might be of interest to other travelers.
No booths for payment as "normal" as we know it, but there are tolls cameras that control the passage of vehicles. The system is prepaid calling each company previously to give the credit card number and vehicle registration. We do not pay any toll. In Sydney, it is easy to avoid toll roads if traveling with car rental south as deliveries are made near the Princes Highway and is free.
In some sections of road are rest areas, most equipped toilet, some more remote than other road, which is important to rest better. There are many on the border of NSW and VIC, between Eden and Lake Entrance.
Kiama: blowhole (blowhole), even if the sea is calm little climbs. We went at high tide, which is supposed to better but the hole we blew a lot. There is an open saltwater pool by the sea and a historic shave ice street.
- 12 Apostles and vicinity: the most famous Great Ocean Road site, a few kilometers east of Port Campbell. Not only are the 12 rocks, there are several areas spread over a few km., Each very different. From east to west:
Port Campbell to Portland: little interest. Milk production. Around Mount Gambier: plantations. Robe: historic village by the sea. Robe Meningie: marshes, salt lakes, different landscape. Depopulated. Adelaide Hills.
In almost all large towns, there is an information office. Maps, brochures. Very good attention. If questions zones "free shave ice camp", you inform and sometimes even have a list and in the office of Torquay.
Overnight at Johanna Beach Relocation We as did a 3 days, two nights were in route and slept at Johanna Beach (Great Otway National Park, about 250 km west of Melbourne). Free camp site next to a wild beach in a deserted place. Very popular, but large enough (can be filled in summer). Toilets but no drinking water. A 4 km from the main road (tarmac). Rest area on the road between Robe and Kingston SE: no toilet. Quiet.
You go through an area of Outback, the Nullarbor Plain. We thought this road was less busy but every time we passed cars, trucks or campervans. We even picked up 2 people who were hitchhiking.
There is a "Quarantine check point" in the border shave ice states. Border Town heading towards shave ice Ceduna SA and WA. Register the vehicle (well, only part, not exhaustive) as it is forbidden to transport fresh fruit.
In Kimba (about 150 km west of Port Augusta) is a free camp area with toilets, BBQ, etc.. And even with municipal swimming pool next door. One of the few free camp sites in this area, the rest are just sitting areas.
1.Wirrulla (90 km east of Ceduna) on the outskirts of town. As there is a business site, you can set out houses in theory only. No probs. Two. Area east of Madura: Very popular with "gray nomads". WC. Quiet. Shadow. Three. In Munglinup, east of Ravensthorpe: cmap free area with toilets, BBQ, etc.. April. East of Nornalup, Bow Bridge (near the east entrance to the Valley of the Giants): clearing huge sign that says "water". Note: in this area there are many areas because there are many tourist and business. In Walpole (5 km west), in the parking John Rate lookout seems to be allowed to sleep and has toilets. May. East of Busselton, Port Geographe in: several parking by the beach. Some with WC. Before the bridge.
As you move away from populated areas, especially in the middle of the Nullarbor, shave ice prices go up to $ 2! Given the distances (in 200 km) no choice but to go fill up at almost all stations.
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