Made it to NSW today staying the night at broken hill. And no spewing today except from the mrs when I made her go to the Peterborough railway museum. ImageUploadedByMotorculture1387351359.628753.jpg
Made it to NSW today staying the night at broken hill. And no spewing today except from the mrs when I made her go to the Peterborough railway museum. ImageUploadedByMotorculture1387351359.628753.jpg
Just worked out my fuel figures so far.
Perth to Dubbo= 3345km according to my odo running 285/70R17 tyres. Used 577 litres of diesel.
2 adults 3 kids cargo area loaded right up and roof rack fully loaded not towing anything.
Averaged 17.2L/100km
best 15.2L/100
worst 19.5L/100
Dearest $1.96/L @Mundrabilla roadhouse
Cheapest $1.629/L @Ceduna
I was hoping to get better consumption than this but I don't think it's too bad considering the bloody wind we've been driving into.
Those figures are about right for the load you were carting.Originally Posted by firm351
great thread to date, look forward to following your travels ... be safe
2007 TI Patrol
just think it will even up on the way home hopefully it will be a tail wind, lucky you didnt stop at Madura Pass it was over $2.20 when i went through last.
2003 gu3 td42tdi sold 😞 bloody gvm towing crap. Bt50 3500kg gvm.
Staying in a hotel in north Sydney for a few nights luckily I found out the car park clearance before I got here its only 2.1M but it tapers down to 1.9M in places. I took the roof rack off at my oldies place before we came so I fitted ok but fark this car park is tight to get around in definitely not designed for patrols. ImageUploadedByMotorculture1388135266.813086.jpg
Did a couple of hot laps of mount panorama today just a little bit slower than the old days of my old XE 351 falcon on a Saturday night. Kids thought it was pretty cool driving on a real race track especially going through the dipper.
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Patrols all packed up again ready to set off on leg 2 off our journey Victoria here we come.
Stropp (3rd January 2014)
Just spent two nights at a place called fauna Australia wildlife retreat at lavers hill on the great ocean road. Pretty cool place to stay if you have kids or just like animals its like an animal park but it's only for the people staying there.
My kids loved it they got to cuddle a couple of koalas so they were pretty excited. Lavers hill is a good spot to stop if you want to spend a few days looking around because it's centrally located for most of the main touristy things in the area. We went on the otway fly tree top walk which was real good but bloody hard yakka pushing a pram up and down those hills the tree top section was worth it butImageUploadedByMotorculture1389181717.282347.jpgImageUploadedByMotorculture1389181747.439366.jpg
Also went out to the cape otway light station which is pretty awesome if your into lighthouses like me, I got shitloads of photos but there on my other camera so I will put some on here when I get home. On the way to cape otway there are thousands of gum trees that have been completely striped bare by koalas they are literally eating themselves out of a home, pretty amazing sight definitely don't get that in WA.
Today we went to the 12 apostles and all the other backpacker hot spots along the way
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Then we decided fark it we only live once so we went for a helicopter flight over the 12 apostles and London bridge bloody brilliant it was cost a small fortune but totally worth it
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Kids got there first ride in a chopper which they haven't shut up about since.
Anyway hope I haven't bored any one too much, staying in Portland tonight and into SA tomorrow.
Definitely not bored here bud, you keep em coming mate?
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