Our revised map

This is what 16,267 km looks like.

time of our life (video)

Maisie- Our trip by numbers

108 days on the trip

7 states and territories visited

41 stops for petrol 

41 times mum cleaned the windscreen at the petrol station

15 $1 frozen cokes each 

83 nights in the tent

93 salad sandwich lunches

0 times dad opened the car bonnet

2 broken tent poles in Central Queensland storm

1 hospitalisation ( Harvey )

3 family fish and chips nights

718km travelled on longest driving day ( Barkley Homestead to Alice Springs ) 

8 hrs 55 mins time it took to drive from Barkley Homestead to Alice Springs

64 visitor information centres visited

29 times we set up the tent and packed up

4 games of golf

2 times Milla vomited ( one in the car, one in bed)

4 visits from the tooth fairy

31 driving days with the trailer on

113 cents per litre cheapest fuel on trip ( Blue Mountains )

226 cents per litre most expensive fuel on trip ( Kings Canyon )

1 speeding ticket ( 6 km over, unlucky )

2 times mum drove with the trailer ( total distance 130m )

15 nights in cabins or hotels 

10 nights spent with friends

7 islands we have been on 

102 blog entries

17 movies made

3 air mattresses we have had to replace

19 patches Maisie's bought

98.25 price per night to camp at Kiama in peak season

25.00 cheapest price to camp per night at Ormiston Gorge

0 times we had to queue up for a shower

106 times Maisie said " I have a headache " whilst driving

16,267 kilometres travelled on our trip

Harvey- Holiday Road

We have this song called Holiday Road that we play every driving day.  A driving day is when we are all loaded up with the trailer on.  The song was Dad's idere and he didn't tell us until the first day on the trip.

 That was a long time ago now.  Sixteen weeks ago in fact.  Now we are nerely done on the trip and we are not impressed with the song as we have heard it 30 times.  

We are coming to the end of our advenchure.  

Milla - Nambucca Heads

My family and I went to a motel for two nites.

 The girs wochd a weding sho wile the boys wochd the cricit.  The motel was nis.  We went ant for diner on the last nite of our trip. I had fish and chips and pik lemanad.  I sat on my bed and ate food and wochd tv.  I liked sleeping in a bed.  I'm looking ford to going home.  

Sizzling Sydney (video)

Harvey- Northern Beaches Safari

Today we went on a boogy boarding safari of Sydney's Northern beaches. 

 First stop was Curl Curl Beach just north of Manly.  The waves were medium sized and good.  Curl Curl Beach also had a polluted lagoon that Milla found out you are not supposed to swim in.  I hope she doesn't come out with a rash tonight! 

Then we went to Whale Beach.  The surf was a lot bigger.  There was a sand bank so the water went deep, shallow then deep.  I am trying to do a 360 on my boogy board.  I am also trying to turn and go into the barrel of the wave.

Our 3 boogy boards are still going strong.  Only 1 or 2 more surfs to go. 

Maisie- Magnificent Manly

Manly is a suburb of Sydney at the entrance to Sydney Harbour.  It has both surf and bay beaches.  We caught the ferry to Manly because you can't catch the train.  The ferry ride takes about half an hour.

 We got a great view of the Sydney Opera House and the harbour and lots of other little bays.

  When we got to Manly we walked a street of shops to get to the surf beach.  There were lots of people at the beach.  I really wanted to boogy board but we unfortunately didn't take them on the ferry.  Manly had a lot of surf shops and trendy cafés and restaurants.  There was another little beach around the corner with lots of fancy houses overlooking it.  I would love to live in Manly.