Some of the other towns we stopped overnight at were Narrabri, West Wyalong, Coonabarabran and Gilgandra. All those towns had nice motels to stop at, but not much to see. Moree was the furthest we made in one day, that was a hard drive for my dad but only 400kms from Brisbane so made for a really easy drive the next day.
This website has a great map...
http://www.coastshop.com.au/maps/3melbourne_brisbane_map.htm
ETA: there's the satellite dish at Parkes, that's interesting!
Done this one a few times now and can remember a few nice places. We mostly stop in parks to try to avoid the golden arches as much as possible.
I don't think these will be in order but we've stopped in Forbes, West Wyalong, Coonabarabran (is really pretty with a great park they can run wild in), Narranderra (similar nice big park), I'm sure we spent the night at Gilgandra like OP and Armadale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield, and I'm sure there are more but duty calls an I need to run off
We did this last year with the 4 amigo's. We travelled to Coonabarabran the first night and made sure we stopped ever 2 hours to stretch legs ect. It was mostly parks to which was nice for the kids as us to get some nice fresh air. Dont forget that the big dish is on the way up to...I cant remember were exactly it was but the kids thought it was ace, especially when I took pics of what looked like J man holding it up
Thanks, we are planning probably 3 days driving, and didn't want to take too much time to get there, apart from the day stop at dubbo zoo. Its moew a case of if there is something interesting to see on the way up to plan to make time to stop and see it. If its all pretty uneventful apart from dubbo zoo then we'll pretty much just drive drive drive!
My warm regards to the esteemed forum members here. Just by taking a look at the post counts some of you have made I am sure this is the right place for me to get my queries cleared.
That you people are engaged in talking about the trip to sunshine coast made me interested primarily. I have planned a family vacation there and this is going to be the first time that we are doing so. Maybe the required information to visit the place in most suitably would be found from the posts here but the safety issues are mainly making me worried. Can I be assured the trip would be risk free and we get to have the best possible vacation! Issues of violence heard in news has prompted me to ask this, hope you people do not mind.
The sunshine coast is pretty safe, I haven't heard of violence there. It is a lovely place for a family holidays, lovely beaches etc. Hopefully someone who lives there can come and give you more help.
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