I need the low down. With the trailer on the back of my car, I only get a bit over 500 kms to a tank of petrol. I need to know exactly how far between petrol stations & if there are any cheap places (eg caravan park) I can stay.
I'm on my own with 4 kids & my dog. Don't care how long it takes me to get across. I'm giving myself a week before I plan to move into my house, so heaps of time. Not much money for accomodation though...
If any one can help it'd be great. I'm planning to leave CW NSW around the 3rd Jan.
weve done the trip a few times, and gone kal/esperance/, caiguna, eucla, adelaide/marray bridge/border town, melbourne
we tried to do 8hrs driving a day.
it cost us 1& for fuel and axccomodation
We'll be going Esperance way. I just really need to know if my car will make it between servo's! I know its really isolated out there & I've heard you need to carry fuel, but having never done it I don't know any more than that.
We did it last year towing a caravan and didn't have any issues getting to a petrol station in time. There's a station at every roadhouse/town along the Nullabor. As for accomodation, most (maybe all?) roadhouses have hotels you can stay in or places you can park a caravan. The caravan friendly places were pretty cheap to stay at (around $20 or so dollars per night), some charge you for hot water in the showers (I think at Eucla). Would you be staying in a tent or a camper? A camper would be fine in those places, a tent may not be suitable due to snakes, etc. We never saw anyone use tents. Some places to stay with a caravan are just a stretch of gravel with a few power points and '70's toilet blocks.
Make sure you bring plenty of food and things you will need. Basics like bread and milk cost a fortune across the Nullabor. A box of tissues was $9 in one place .
A little place in the middle of nowhere. My brother is there. About halfway between Esperance & Perth.
I want to do things, see things. So we'll start there & see what happens. Might head up north from there in a year or two. Just take our time & see a bit of Australia
Trish - I won't have either, lol. I was hoping for motel/cabin/permanent van or something
If all the servo's have motels/rooms, we'll be right.
Last edited by ~clover~; December 26th, 2011 at 07:07 AM.
Yeah, from what I recall they all had somewhere you could stay . I didn't see any permanent sites or cabins, but there were plenty of motel rooms. We LOVED Esperance, we stayed there on the way to Perth and on the way back home we loved it that much lol! We travelled the whole south coast up to Perth and it was sensational, we wanted to live in each town we stayed in .
there are motels at the read houses, but they aren't cheap. 150-200 for basic motel room.
do not drive at night, you run the risk if hitting kangaroo and if you do, you'll be in for a long wait for help.
the roadhouses are it. there are no other shops at all, so definitely bring as much food as possible. they charge a fortune for food and and drinks.
I would drive as much as the kids will allow in one day. stop for short run arounds at the roadhouses. there really isn't anything to see or stop at apart from these unless you want to take 100km round trip detours.
oh i live between esperance and perth
the roadhousearent cheap, but most of the ones we've staye at slept 4 easily. most also say 'x km to fuel' so we topped up if in doubt. i thnk the 200km stretch right before nullabor village was the longest without anything
200km is nothing for us We usually do the 10 hours to here with only 2 or 3 stops. We're leaving from Dubbo.
Trish, Esperance is gorgeous isn't it. We went down there while we were visiting. Cold & windy, but so pretty
I wonder if you can book into the servo's etc online? I'm planning on doing 8 - 10 hours a day. If it gets too much, we might stay an extra night somewhere.
I'm not sure if you can book online, maybe do a Google? People only stay one night so they shouldn't be completely booked out. You could check the towns on your map and Google their phone numbers to take with you? That way you can call ahead and work out if they have room for you before you arrive. I wouldn't book too far in advance because you might get a good run with the kids and go further than you expected. The quicker you get off the Nullarbor the better! On the way home (after leaving Esperance) we managed to do a big drive and only needed to stay one night on the Nullarbor.
I blogged our trip in September/October of last year, there are photos of some of the Nullarbor towns on it if you want to have a look over it HERE. It's in reverse order obviously because the lastest blog post was of our last days there ITMS!
Trishalicious - We LOVED your town, that was another we wanted to live in lol! DH loved all the huge windmills
i had reception all the way to the nullabor, nothing at caiguna, though norseman and eucla had reception.
albanys too cold haha, we are in perth for a month or so, but its too hot!
Can't wait to see Albany. Its gotta be warmer than Esperance! Didn't get a chance when we were over there.
We'll be near Wave Rock, so if anyone is out that way
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Crossing the Nullabor...
me too. I don't have much confidence, but we'll see.
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