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- Mar 23, 2024, 2:04pm
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 17 m
- AustraliaNew South WalesLeichhardtBalmainIssy Wyner Reserve33°51’41” S 151°10’33” E
And we're back!
March 23 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
At the end of a year of travel, the 4 adventurers are back home!
We've got mixed feelings about it as it was an amazing adventure, but it sure is nice to have a couch, and a bed your feet don't hang off, and a toilet you don't have to empty!
Some stats from the trip:
- Kilometers travelled: 35,900
- Locations stopped at: over 100
- Animals encountered in the wild:
- Emus (many)
- Kangaroos (heaps)
- Seals. sea lions (several)
- Snakes (several pythons, one tiger snake!)
- Koalas (loads at 2 locations in Victoria)
- Eagles, Pelican, loads of Cormorants, Jabiroos, but couldn't "FindPenguins"!
- Platypus (one in Snowy Mountains)
- Wombat (one walking along the side of the road)
- Echidnas (several)
- Buffaloes (a handful)
- Feral cats and goats
- Turtles
- Sting rays (many small and huge)
- Sharks (babies thankfully, plus a weird flat one)
-Whales (from a sea plane)
- Crocs (several - freshies, maybe some salties)
- Dingoes (on K'gari)
- Number of times bogged: 1 - but it was a doozy!
- Number of flat tyres: 0
- Number of animals hit: 0 (yay - didn't get bullbar dirty)
- Top download speed of Starlink 300mb!
- Amount of tail Bosley had to have chopped off in Cooma: 0.5
- Length of driveway to Mt Elizabeth station in the Kimberleys: 30 kms
- Alergic reactions: 1 (Rebecca's face swelled up from a bee sting in the middle of the Nullabor!)
- Biggest mine: Kalgoorlie super pit (3.5 k x 1.5 k hole)
- Best burger: Broadarrow travern (just North of Kalgoorlie)
- Hottest day: 44.5 degrees
Thanks to everyone for following along, we really appreciated having you along every step of the way!
And finally for a song to end the trip click go to: https://bbsong.dinn.com/ or this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ma90b5bvv7jfvk5m…Read more
Traveler Welcome Home 🥰 🏡 couldn’t open the BBSONG sadly xxx
Traveler Yeah, it plays up, but it should come up eventually. You can also try this: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ma90b5bvv7jfvk5m…
Traveler Check out how faded my shirt is from the first footprint. We saw a lot of sun!