Post by greysrigging on Mar 3, 2021 4:40:36 GMT -5
Heading west across the Continent..... from the civilized east to the wild west. Western Australians don't really like Eastern Staters, particularly Covid 19 disease ridden ones, hence their draconian border closures. The only way to cross the borders was to have a West Coast Eagles or Fremantle Dockers membership card, and even that was chancey depending on who the border security guard supported. Never mind that all us interstaters do the hard heavy skilled work in the mines and gas fields that Western Australians can't or wont do....haha
Anyways, heading west from Sydney, we pass through Wagga Wagga, the capital of one of the richest farming regions in Australia, the Riverina, then to Mildura in the north west corner of Victoria. Then 6 hours to Port Augusta, and steel onself for the run accross the Nullarbor Plain, one of the flatest and most featureless boring drives in the country. And a maximum speed limit of 110klm/h ! Ceduna is the last town, civilized that is and only barely....lol, Nullarbor Roadhouse, Eucla near the WA border. One of the issues heading west is one is generally driving into the prevailing westerly systems, with much higher fuel consumption, particularly if towing a trailer or a van. Once in WA, you wind the watch back to Western Standard time ( no daylight savings in WA so its 3 hours difference between Sydney and Perth.
Norseman is your genuine WA crappy outback gold mining town, and Southern Cross is also genuinely crappy, except the scenery changes into farmland, wheat and sheep grazing as you make the final run into Perth, and if its in the winter months there might even be green grass, green wheat and yellow canola crops in the paddocks beside the highway.
So, none of the brutal Northern Tropics on this run, all warm temerate, cool warm oceanic and Aussie med.....enjoy the trip !
Sydney - Perth, about 4000klm by road.
Sydney
Wagga Wagga
Mildura
Port Augusta
Ceduna
Nullarbor Roadhouse
Eucla
Norseman
Southern Cross
Perth
Anyways, heading west from Sydney, we pass through Wagga Wagga, the capital of one of the richest farming regions in Australia, the Riverina, then to Mildura in the north west corner of Victoria. Then 6 hours to Port Augusta, and steel onself for the run accross the Nullarbor Plain, one of the flatest and most featureless boring drives in the country. And a maximum speed limit of 110klm/h ! Ceduna is the last town, civilized that is and only barely....lol, Nullarbor Roadhouse, Eucla near the WA border. One of the issues heading west is one is generally driving into the prevailing westerly systems, with much higher fuel consumption, particularly if towing a trailer or a van. Once in WA, you wind the watch back to Western Standard time ( no daylight savings in WA so its 3 hours difference between Sydney and Perth.
Norseman is your genuine WA crappy outback gold mining town, and Southern Cross is also genuinely crappy, except the scenery changes into farmland, wheat and sheep grazing as you make the final run into Perth, and if its in the winter months there might even be green grass, green wheat and yellow canola crops in the paddocks beside the highway.
So, none of the brutal Northern Tropics on this run, all warm temerate, cool warm oceanic and Aussie med.....enjoy the trip !
Sydney - Perth, about 4000klm by road.
Sydney
Wagga Wagga
Mildura
Port Augusta
Ceduna
Nullarbor Roadhouse
Eucla
Norseman
Southern Cross
Perth
It has the best rainfall and temperature combo for me. 
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