Longestdrive in Australia

[nastysven]

All of NT is 130km/h on the highways so you can comfortably do 140+ once you're 20 mins out of each town or community.

Between Kununurra and Broome again once you get out of town 20 mins you can open it up again. I had cruise control set on 150 and was only catching the occasional boong wagon. I pulled over for a piss and an old landcruiser ute passed me and when I caught him again he was still doing ~150 so it's the pretty normal out there.

Between Norseman and Ceduna they'll have the cruise control set on 200 easy.

I call BS

[darwinschops]

Good going fellas.

[Sturmovik]

They need to fix their (new) route

You went up the Stuart Hwy after leaving the Barkly Hwy. Not the Tablelands Hwy as youve shown on your map.


51 hours down, and about 4800kms from what I can tell. Not bad!

[TJ Shermuz]

going good guys!

[Dave75]

I call BS

4 [SA] HP cars on the Nullabor at the moment...out of Port Augusta...to the border.

[I'm DJ!]

Nearly I. Darwin. Crazy

[nastysven]

In WA.

[Great Dane]

From the car:

Update Day 2
Will and Jan have been struggling with jetlag and the 10 hour time difference - their body clocks are certainly feeling the effects of ten hour time difference. Initially we made good progress by working our driving shifts and as a result we managed to average of 100 km/h in the first twenty four hours.
Day 2 was always going to be difficult, because we were entering the outback and our plans were quickly thrown into disarray despite our thorough planning. We had made inquiries about the road conditions in the northern region, but unfortunately on the day they turned out to be incorrect. Our situation was not helped by the fact we went the wrong way and when we turned around and drove 70 km to get back on Highway #1, we were faced with a closed bridge. GREAT!
To “save time” we decided to “go around” the bridge by taking a very small road. As it turned out that was not a good idea – the pictures on Twitter bear evidence to that. We learnt the lesson that “You shall not drive on small roads where we have to open a gate to enter”. After 10 km on a nice small road, we crashed into a big mud pool at around 100 Km/t. Suffice it to say it took us 5 hours to get out..!!! Gone was the plan of doing the entire ‘Big Loop’ on Highway #1 as we had to take a 500 km detour on the 85 and 65 – Well you live and you learn.
Later we found out that the recent rainfall had made the whole North of Australia into one big mud pool.. These ‘difficulties’ meant that we are now facing more than three hours extra driving added to the 5 hour lost by digging mud and cow dung (shit) to free the car just to catch up with our original schedule.
Now en route to Kathrine with more than 8500 km to go… Understandably our spirits are a bit low at the moment but we will push on like the crazies we are
Update: Just passed the 48 hour mark and we have done 4650 km since Sydney .. not bad..

[Dark Orange]

From their Facebook.

Update Day 2
Will and Jan have been struggling with jetlag and the 10 hour time difference - their body clocks are certainly feeling the effects of ten hour time difference. Initially we made good progress by working our driving shifts and as a result we managed to average of 100 km/h in the first twenty four hours.
Day 2 was always going to be difficult, because we were entering the outback and our plans were quickly thrown into disarray despite our thorough planning. We had made inquiries about the road conditions in the northern region, but unfortunately on the day they turned out to be incorrect. Our situation was not helped by the fact we went the wrong way and when we turned around and drove 70 km to get back on Highway #1, we were faced with a closed bridge. GREAT!
To “save time” we decided to “go around” the bridge by taking a very small road. As it turned out that was not a good idea – the picture on Twitter bear evidence to that. We learnt the lesson that “You shall not drive on small roads where we have to open a gate to enter”. After 10 km on a nice small road, we crashed into a big mud pool at around 100 Km/t. Suffice it to say it took us 5 hours to get out..!!! Gone was the plan of doing the entire ‘Big Loop’ on Highway #1 as we had to take a 500 km detour on the 85 and 65 – Well you live and you learn.
Later we found out that the recent rainfall had made the whole North of Australia into one big mud pool.. These ‘difficulties’ meant that we are now facing more than three hours extra driving added to the 5 hour lost by digging mud and cow dung (shit) to free the car just to catch up with our original schedule.
Now en route to Kathrine with more than 8500 km to go… Understandably our spirits are a bit low at the moment but we will push on like the crazies we are
Update: Just passed the 48 hour mark and we have done 4650 km since Sydney .. not bad..

[Great Dane]

They need to fix their (new) route

You went up the Stuart Hwy after leaving the Barkly Hwy. Not the Tablelands Hwy as youve shown on your map.


51 hours down, and about 4800kms from what I can tell. Not bad!

let us just say that mud forced our hand to take a different route

[I'm DJ!]

Nice work lads. Chin up, that was always going to happen somewhere, all part of the adventure.

[nastysven]

Now that your in WA, it will be smooth sailing from here.

good luck, and watch for the cows/goats/camels as you turn south (esp on dusk/dawn).

[Fraud]

just an idea...

hit a problem that causes a massive detour? thats cool, take detour, and when you get to the other side, that becomes the start line, restart the clock, and do the full loop back to that point!

[I'm DJ!]

Lol, speedo's broken apparently (from there first day blog)

[Cplus]

What happened to sticking to speed limits :D