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| The last Aussie sunset we'd be seeing for a while... |
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| It had taken a battering... |
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| A few tent poles had not enjoyed the ground we had stayed on! |
Started the morning by virtually emptying the car to pack our bags for the imminent
flight, and also to try and get rid of some rubbish we’d accumulated prior to
shipping another load back to England. Perhaps delaying the inevitable as well –
the car hadn’t miraculously recovered overnight, so again we were relying on
others to get started. Felt it wasn’t worth worrying about the car the whole
day so went straight to a mechanic – fortunately it was a dead battery rather
than a faulty alternator (check out how knowledgeable that sounds – the reality
is much, much worse). A very speedy fix, and then it was straight down the Stuart
highway to Darwin.
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| At the car wash yeah! |
Dropped off the shipping, then enjoyed treating the Beaut to the first (and
last) car wash since the trip commenced. Dropped it off at a friend of a
friends (thanks Nell and Sarah!) with a view to selling it down the track, then
on to the airport, where we dropped off a mountain of change on an unsuspecting
cashier to buy a final couple of packs of Australian themed patience cards.
Before we even realised it, Australia was receding into the distance – next stop
Changi airport, Singapore.
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| Singers here we come! |
Key Learnings
1. 14,500kms travelled in 45 days is an average of 322kms per day. That is 86%
of the 16,913km between Melbourne and London (as the crow flies), 16.5 times
the driving distance from Melbourne to Sydney, 42.6 times the driving distance
from London to York and 46.5 times the driving distance from London to Torquay.
However you look at it, a bloody long way…
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| We gained a better appreciation for the T-shirt's stating "Australia - it's a bloody long way" |
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