Sometimes you forget how big, really impressively huge it is

[Bribie G]

 

[Not For Horses]

Had to laugh at that episode of top gear when they drove from the west coast of GB to the east. It just took overnight.

 

[SimoB]

Haha... Yet, both are islands.

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[Fat Bastard]

One of the biggest eye openers for me was driving to Perth and back (from Sydney) for my mates wedding. 5 days over, 4 days back with most days around 1000km, and a final day of 1300km from Broken Hill to Sydney. Miles and miles of **** all in this country!

And I still didn't beat my one-day record of 1800km from Adelaide to Sydney.

 

[Dave70]

Anybody else think of pong when they looked at that?

 

[Fat Bastard]

Pong? You should have smelt my undercrackers after 1800 clicks!

 

[warra48]

Yup, it's huge.

Common misconception that Australia is an island. It's actually a continent. Tasmania is an island.

About 40 years ago I drove my brand new Datsun 180B from Adelaide to Sydney in one go, stopping only for fuel and piddle stops, took 15 hours.

 

[stux]

A few years ago some Brits were staying with us in Sydney.

They hatched the brilliant idea one day to have a day trip to Adelaide. They figured they'd get there in time for lunch.

Then we picked our selves off the ground.

 

[Pogierob]

I rode my virago 250 from Darwin to Melbourne via Rockhampton a few years back had to carry an extra jerry can of fuel to make it between petrol stations at some points.

 

[dicko]

Isn't there words in a song something like "it really does take a day to travel one inch on the map".
One of Slim Dusty's Truckin' songs if I recall correctly. h34r: :lol:

 

[spog]

When in pomgolia over Xmas a local asked me about Oz I told him where I live it takes about 8 hours to drive to Adelaide and that's just one state,he was gob smacked ,especially when I said that's 660 km which is roughly the same as London to Edinburgh .

 

[ianh]

Drawing a map of the outline of Australia over Europe on the same scale was only way I could get my folks in the UK to understand the size of Australia.

Living in NW WA at the time. Driving round Australia was the equivalent of setting off from the UK driving across Europe into Russia, down past the Black sea through Turkey and Syria along the coast of northern Africian then back through Spain and France to the UK. Then they understood.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

In The UK your no more than 2 hrs drive to the coast from any point...

In Australia its about 2-3 days.

And even the Americans get a shock when they realise some of our cattle stations are bigger than the state of Texas....

 

[Truman42]

In another life I used to drive triple road trains from Perth to Broome, and back. 4600 km round trip of nothing but tourists and roadhouses here and there.

But the longest trip I did was drive my old HQ sedan with the missus, a German shepherd and a cat from Broome to Cairns. Stayed there for 6 months and decided we didn't like it so drove back again, same car, same dog and cat, even the same missus.

 

[pedleyr]

The best way to put it simply for me is by saying (to someone from Melbourne) that Brisbane is about half way to Cairns.

People generally know that Brisbane's a ******* long way but then think that there's not much further beyond that. This realisation makes it sink in.

People from the UK or smaller countries have a harder time visualising it though.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Well the UK is only about as big as Victoria...

 

[pk.sax]

After driving up and down the east coast and between adelaide and melbourne, canberra and melbourne - Its the same distance sometimes as prolly Delhi to Bangalore. Bowls people over when I tell them I drove something like that in a day - and a half.

 

[MastersBrewery]

Sydney to Perth is an easy 4 day run, my mum used to do it each xmas when I was a kid with up to 4 kids in the car, lots of funny stories along the way. I did it myself 2 years ago in a little suzuki Sierra in 3 days but that was with my foot hard on the floor and lots of encouraging words (miss that little car)

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[Ducatiboy stu]

Western NSW is bigger than most european countries.

I used to think nothing of driving from the Upper Hunter to the QLD border ( via Narrabri ) and back in one day.....

Nothing like a 5 hr drive...15mins work...5hr drive home..

 

[Beer Ninja]

Had to laugh at that episode of top gear when they drove from the west coast of GB to the east. It just took overnight.

That's considerd quite a long journey over there, seriously.

From where I used to live in Yorkshire it would take up to seven hours to get down to Devon for a holiday. That was also considered a long drive and something to be prepared for. I have to add, the M1 and M5 to that destination in the holiday period are unlike any driving conditions you could ever experience here. I guess that just added to Pom stress. I'd probably freak now if faced with the M1 and M5. *Finishes Belgian Leffe clone and goes to bed..*