Aussie Roadtrips Part 7 Darwin - Sydney

Another iconic Aussie Roadtrip....4000klm down through the heart of the NT and Western Queensland, into the bush areas of NSW, then due east over the Great Divide and the Blue Mountains before descending into the Sydney Basin. My mother lives at Camden, south west of Sydney, and my sister at Penshurst, not far from the Airport south of the Sydney CBD. I have done this trip many times over 40 years, to and from, and there is always something new to see. Usually 3 days to my mothers place when I push it, but have done the trip in 48 hours with two drivers. Generally try and avoid night travel in Western Queensland due to the plague proportion numbers of kangaroos in QLD and NSW. Wet season travel can be problematic,with the North West Queensland sections often flooded, but I've only been caught out once in all my trips, stranded for a few days... at a pub that sold beer, so wasn't really an issue...lol. Another time in June ( Aussie winter ), was delayed by snow between Orange and Bathurst in the Great Divide west of the Blue Mountains, and have seen snow falling at Mt Victoria and  Katoomba.... bit of a novelty for a bloke from the Northern Territory.
Often, with Dec/Jan travel, there is greenery until about Elliot, 700klm south of Darwin, then not a blade of green grass until about Wellington, an hour out of Orange in the Central Tablelands, NSW then dry as a witches tit again around Camden at my mothers place.

Darwin - Sydney. 


Darwin 


Elliot


Camooweal


Cloncurry


Longreach


Charleville


Bourke


Orange


Camden ( notes/- disregard the record min temps for April and May....erroneous data )


Sydney Airport