Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Ice ski info
IF we iceski.. it'll be at Mt Hotham... drive to Bairnsdale from Melb.. den up to Omeo..
stay at caravan Park in Omeo...
35km away from Mt Hotham - the ski resort!!!!
wheeeeeee
ICE... SKi.................!!!
http://www.mthotham.com.au/today/reports/snowreport.htm
http://www.hotham.com.au/
stay at caravan Park in Omeo...
35km away from Mt Hotham - the ski resort!!!!
wheeeeeee
ICE... SKi.................!!!
http://www.mthotham.com.au/today/reports/snowreport.htm
http://www.hotham.com.au/
Friday, May 15, 2009
Just FYI....
FUEL CONSUMPTION
The common factor, wherever you start, is which way you make your circumnavigation - clockwise or anticlockwise. There are two major aspects to consider:
The wind may seem the least likely factor to take into account when planning the trip. But you need only one day's travel bucking into a stiff headwind to realise what a significant factor it is. And your wallet will feel the strain when you pull up to refuel. The difference between a 30 kph headwind and a 30 kph tailwind is 60 kph of wind. When you are bucking into 30 kph of wind, the driver going the other way is 60 kph better off, windwise. Compared with calm conditions, that 30 kph headwind could add 50% to your fuel bill.
CARAVANNING
Warning: Parking your caravan overnight in roadside rest areas can be dangerous and is often illegal. Caravan Parks provide a safe, secure facility for tourists and they need and deserve our support. Sadly, more caravan parks are closing than opening and this places the caravanning lifestyle so treasured by Australians at risk.
The common factor, wherever you start, is which way you make your circumnavigation - clockwise or anticlockwise. There are two major aspects to consider:
 | the prevailing winds |
| | the northern winter |
The wind may seem the least likely factor to take into account when planning the trip. But you need only one day's travel bucking into a stiff headwind to realise what a significant factor it is. And your wallet will feel the strain when you pull up to refuel. The difference between a 30 kph headwind and a 30 kph tailwind is 60 kph of wind. When you are bucking into 30 kph of wind, the driver going the other way is 60 kph better off, windwise. Compared with calm conditions, that 30 kph headwind could add 50% to your fuel bill.
CARAVANNING
Warning: Parking your caravan overnight in roadside rest areas can be dangerous and is often illegal. Caravan Parks provide a safe, secure facility for tourists and they need and deserve our support. Sadly, more caravan parks are closing than opening and this places the caravanning lifestyle so treasured by Australians at risk.
Monday, May 11, 2009
UPDATED ITINEARY - Adelaide to Melbourne (via Great Ocean Road)
Hey OZ peeps! rough itinerary til 6th june... planned with close reference to chun's rough skeleton itinerary...
31 May(sunday) - Perth fly to adelaide [SAM pls provide us with flight details which u have booked for us]
Virgin Blue DJ722 5.45pm - Adel 22.10pm??
1 June (monday)
Meet Roy fly plane
6hrs drive (non-stop)
McLaren Vale – 50 wineries (wine tasting), Almond Train Walk (stroll along old railway line)
Victor Harbor – Fairy penguins, Whale Centre $8/pax (whale watching tour $$) Tel: 08 8552 5644/ 08 8551 0750
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=219494
Goolwa – sandstone cottages, Cockle Train (steam train but need $$)
- If got time, free 5mins ferry to Hindmarsh Island
- (if got time, stay over at nice campsite in Wellington: catch small vehicle ferry to get over to it)
From Goolwa to Port McDonnell > LIMESTONE COAST
http://www.thelimestonecoast.com/site/page.cfm?u=8
Coorong – Cultural centre -> National Park (Free)
Robe – seaside village, EAT lobster legs!!! (but winter duno have or not) “Indulge in the local delicacy, Southern Rock Lobster, September through May” – that answers the qn =(
• Take a photo of the famous obelisk at Cape Dombey
Beachport (if it’s convenient)- • Pool of Siloam, seven times saltier than the sea
2 June (tues)
Penola -> Coonawarra -> Penola – more wine!!
“The best landmark is inevitably a pub, so we picked the Prince of Wales for the rendezvous and cold beers on a warm day. We then checked into the only caravan park in town for 2 nights so we could take in some of the cellar doors.”
PENOLA CARAVAN PARK (powered site $25, unpowered $20 per night, $15/extra pax)
http://www.penolacaravanpark.com.au/
Phone: 08 8737 2381 (International Code +61887372381)
3 June (wed)
Mt Gambier – the blue lake (volcanic crater above city.. really very blue hoho)
“built on the slopes of an extinct volcano? Mount Gambier is one of them and the volcanic lake, the Blue Lake, contains the city's water supply”
“Situated midway between Adelaide and Melbourne, Mount Gambier makes an ideal stopover during a journey to the Great Ocean Road or the Grampians”
6 caravan parks
Port McDon – (EAT fresh crayfish & abalone)
• View the Limestone Wave Sculpture
• Uncover the stories of local shipwrecks at the Maritime Museum
• Explore the Petrified Forest and Camel Rock at Cape Northumberland (South Australia's southernmost geographical point)
“Diving in the area is considered world class with extensive fresh water cave diving and offshore wreck diving sites”
Narrawong – stay over at free forest camp (“perfect setting for a scary horror film”?)
4 June (thurs) & 5 june
Port Fairy – THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD STARTS HERE!!!!!
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/sianeth/summer07/1189535760/tpod.html
“And so the last leg of our great campervanning adventure had descended upon us, 2 days on the Great Ocean Road from Warrnambool up to Melbourne”
Warrnambool – Logan's Beach> whale-watching season May to Sept!!!!! Woooot~
GREAT OCEAN RD
"famous 12 Apostles (although there are no longer 12 as a few have fallen down and some you can't see from the viewing platform!) We also saw The Arch, The Grotto and London Bridge, which collapsed in a storm so its no longer really a bridge...”
Bay of Islands
The Grotto
Ports Campbell (along the stretch)– London Bridge (“amusing tale accompanying this site; the first arch joining it to the mainland collapsed in 1990, stranding a couple that had walked over it on the limestone rock now known as the London Bridge, and seperate from the mainland. After being rescued they fled from the media as they were conducting an extra-marital affair!”), Loch Ard Gorge, Blowhole, Thunder Cave, Broken Head, Sherwood River, 12 Apostles (5mins drive to Gibsons Steps), Cape Oatway
Apollo Bay – EAT CRAYFISH!!!
Lorne – Erksine Falls (popular!)
Bells beach (world famous surfing temples) -> Torquay
Geelong – “We refilled our gas canister in Geelong, and then cruised up the motorway to Melbourne, stopping at a petrol station to refuel and clean up the exterior”
A FEW CARAVAN PARKS ALONG THE WAY
Honey Hush Caravan Park (6 Leakes Road. Laverton VIC)
Barwon Caravan Park (153 Barrabool Road, Belmont. Geelong VIC)
Riverglen Holiday Park (75 Barrabool Road, Belmont. Geelong VIC)
6 June (Sat)
Melb - Pick up Kenneth
31 May(sunday) - Perth fly to adelaide [SAM pls provide us with flight details which u have booked for us]
Virgin Blue DJ722 5.45pm - Adel 22.10pm??
1 June (monday)
Meet Roy fly plane
6hrs drive (non-stop)
McLaren Vale – 50 wineries (wine tasting), Almond Train Walk (stroll along old railway line)
Victor Harbor – Fairy penguins, Whale Centre $8/pax (whale watching tour $$) Tel: 08 8552 5644/ 08 8551 0750
http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=219494
Goolwa – sandstone cottages, Cockle Train (steam train but need $$)
- If got time, free 5mins ferry to Hindmarsh Island
- (if got time, stay over at nice campsite in Wellington: catch small vehicle ferry to get over to it)
From Goolwa to Port McDonnell > LIMESTONE COAST
http://www.thelimestonecoast.com/site/page.cfm?u=8
Coorong – Cultural centre -> National Park (Free)
Robe – seaside village, EAT lobster legs!!! (but winter duno have or not) “Indulge in the local delicacy, Southern Rock Lobster, September through May” – that answers the qn =(
• Take a photo of the famous obelisk at Cape Dombey
Beachport (if it’s convenient)- • Pool of Siloam, seven times saltier than the sea
2 June (tues)
Penola -> Coonawarra -> Penola – more wine!!
“The best landmark is inevitably a pub, so we picked the Prince of Wales for the rendezvous and cold beers on a warm day. We then checked into the only caravan park in town for 2 nights so we could take in some of the cellar doors.”
PENOLA CARAVAN PARK (powered site $25, unpowered $20 per night, $15/extra pax)
http://www.penolacaravanpark.com.au/
Phone: 08 8737 2381 (International Code +61887372381)
3 June (wed)Mt Gambier – the blue lake (volcanic crater above city.. really very blue hoho)
“built on the slopes of an extinct volcano? Mount Gambier is one of them and the volcanic lake, the Blue Lake, contains the city's water supply”
“Situated midway between Adelaide and Melbourne, Mount Gambier makes an ideal stopover during a journey to the Great Ocean Road or the Grampians”
6 caravan parks
Port McDon – (EAT fresh crayfish & abalone)
• View the Limestone Wave Sculpture
• Uncover the stories of local shipwrecks at the Maritime Museum
• Explore the Petrified Forest and Camel Rock at Cape Northumberland (South Australia's southernmost geographical point)
“Diving in the area is considered world class with extensive fresh water cave diving and offshore wreck diving sites”
Narrawong – stay over at free forest camp (“perfect setting for a scary horror film”?)
4 June (thurs) & 5 june
Port Fairy – THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD STARTS HERE!!!!!
http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/sianeth/summer07/1189535760/tpod.html
“And so the last leg of our great campervanning adventure had descended upon us, 2 days on the Great Ocean Road from Warrnambool up to Melbourne”
Warrnambool – Logan's Beach> whale-watching season May to Sept!!!!! Woooot~
GREAT OCEAN RD
"famous 12 Apostles (although there are no longer 12 as a few have fallen down and some you can't see from the viewing platform!) We also saw The Arch, The Grotto and London Bridge, which collapsed in a storm so its no longer really a bridge...”
Bay of Islands
The Grotto
Ports Campbell (along the stretch)– London Bridge (“amusing tale accompanying this site; the first arch joining it to the mainland collapsed in 1990, stranding a couple that had walked over it on the limestone rock now known as the London Bridge, and seperate from the mainland. After being rescued they fled from the media as they were conducting an extra-marital affair!”), Loch Ard Gorge, Blowhole, Thunder Cave, Broken Head, Sherwood River, 12 Apostles (5mins drive to Gibsons Steps), Cape Oatway
Apollo Bay – EAT CRAYFISH!!!
Lorne – Erksine Falls (popular!)
Bells beach (world famous surfing temples) -> Torquay
Geelong – “We refilled our gas canister in Geelong, and then cruised up the motorway to Melbourne, stopping at a petrol station to refuel and clean up the exterior”
A FEW CARAVAN PARKS ALONG THE WAY
Honey Hush Caravan Park (6 Leakes Road. Laverton VIC)
Barwon Caravan Park (153 Barrabool Road, Belmont. Geelong VIC)
Riverglen Holiday Park (75 Barrabool Road, Belmont. Geelong VIC)
6 June (Sat)
Melb - Pick up Kenneth
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
google streetview
hey guess what. if you go to maps.google.com and zoom to our australia locations in Satellite view.. if there is an orange line that means the google street view van has been taking photos so you can see like a preview of the trip if you just zoom in all the way and zoom in somemore! can drag the picture around as u move along the street its pretty cool.
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