Left camp at 8.00am to drive up to Let’s Go Motorhomes to hand in our van. Took two hours to get there as since we booked our trip about 11 months ago they have moved their drop off point which was way out behind Sydney by about 33kms. They used to be a few mins from the airport like all other rental company’s for convenience to the tourist to fly in, pick up your rental near the airport then you are on your way. Same with drop off. So that added another 45mins Uber ride to get to our hotel near the airport. Crazy won’t be using this Company if we ever want to pick up in Sydney. Anyway we managed to get an early checkin at our hotel which really helped to organise our packing better and now can relax knowing we got the van back in one piece. “Phew.”
All very nice. I think it is one of their newer Hotels in their chain. So much room after our small space for 30 days. Dishwasher, washing machine and dryer.
To finish off, it’s our final night in OZ. Going back to when we arrived, there was a lot of rushing around organising picking up the Motorhome, shopping to stock up with supplies, purchasing an Oz SIM card so I always had data to write my blog and basically get on the road to start another Motorhome adventure. On our way we might have had a few hiccups but always managed to get them sorted except one big issue we didn’t have hot water for the whole trip . Had a few days with it just luke warm then just cold for the rest of the trip. Had to do dishes for thirty days by boiling a kettle. Not really good enough but we did get a little compensation but not enough for the inconvenience. But I guess that is a small issue compared to the fun of been on the road and starting out on a new adventure which we always get so much enjoyment out of what we do. Leaving Perth to see the amazing Wave Rock, passing through the Wheatbelt farms which continued for a good part of our trip on and off. Especially later in the trip, when we were crossing the Hay Plains when we saw the farmers ploughing their fields and exposing so many different colours, which I particularly enjoyed. And when I say fields I don’t just mean acres, hectares I mean square kilometres. In fact the biggest farm in Australia is 125 square kilometres. That is massive. PT’s dream to cross the Nullarbor Plains finally came and it didn’t disappoint us. Just being out in these vast open spaces is a thrill. Straight roads and flat land that just goes on and on forever until they disappear over the horizon. And a real biggie no city traffic ( until we approached Sydney). So much different scenery, after the Plains the beauty around the coast of Eyres Peninsular which we loved all that area and especially the oysters and prawns, yum. After leaving the Eyres Peninsula we bi-passed Adelaide, going round the banks of the Murray River. So sad to see what the people had to go through with the major floods during November/December last year. Continuing taking the inland route through to Canberra a place we were keen to see. Our memory there will be the COLD down to overnight minus 4.6 degrees. Finally ended up at Shellharbour for our last three nights in the Motorhome to sort ourselves out and to have few days to unwind. Until we had a long way up to Sydney due to the Let’s Go company changing their drop off and pick up address, which was very inconvenient. Lastly we travelled 5,143kms all up, driving through five states. WA, SA, Vic, NSW, ACT. And by the way we haven’t had any alcoholic drinks since we left NZ!! As always we both really enjoyed our continuous travelling through OZ. We have already talked about our next trip next year starting at Adelaide and driving up the middle (through this little Island!!) and ending back on The East Coast. We have nearly circumnavigated Australia over the years just a little bit of maybe 600 to 800kms from Mt Isa to the centre road to be completed. Maybe next year!!!
Leaving tomorrow on Qantas flight 145 at 11.30am arriving in Auckland at 4.35pm . 😎
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