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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2015, 09:51:25 PM »
x2...bird life here is liking watching a David Attenborough special  :cup:

I'm a bit of a photographer, just as a hobby, so I have noted this well  :cheers:
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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #26 on: October 31, 2015, 12:21:42 PM »
All this advice is good until your out there and you cannot get internet!!!
Have your plans made before you get out of Internet range. Pretty hard to make plans in the middle of nowhere.
Must have Telstra as a minimum.
There are roaming internet services available for a very large cost.

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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #27 on: October 31, 2015, 05:44:00 PM »
All this advice is good until your out there and you cannot get internet!!!
Have your plans made before you get out of Internet range. Pretty hard to make plans in the middle of nowhere.
Must have Telstra as a minimum.
There are roaming internet services available for a very large cost.

Rob


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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #28 on: October 31, 2015, 07:09:09 PM »
Yep agree. Nobody left home before Google was invented ;D
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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #29 on: November 02, 2015, 08:30:11 PM »
I'm a bit of a photographer, just as a hobby, so I have noted this well  :cheers:


Plenty of photo opportunities here...not up to Attenborough standard but its the best I could do...this footage was taken around mid August 2014

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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #30 on: November 03, 2015, 07:47:56 AM »
All this advice is good until your out there and you cannot get internet!!!
Have your plans made before you get out of Internet range. Pretty hard to make plans in the middle of nowhere.
Must have Telstra as a minimum.
There are roaming internet services available for a very large cost.

Rob
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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #31 on: November 03, 2015, 10:58:16 AM »
We  use the facilities within caravancaravan website.
The following "roadside amenities" from Qld Govt, is a new website & will be included in the 2016 edition of Go See OZ

https://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/roadside-amenities-queensland/resource/81ad2932-192c-4246-a84b-340c3368880e
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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #32 on: November 05, 2015, 12:19:55 AM »
When we travelled to northern WA I found the Main Roads website has a list of roadside stops listed along the route we were following. 
Have a look on the qld version, I found good info on https://publications.qld.gov.au there are maps but also look for Motorist Rest Area Tables, that looks pretty helpful..
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Re: Tips on planning stops on a long journey
« Reply #33 on: November 05, 2015, 07:37:08 AM »
Plenty of photo opportunities here...not up to Attenborough standard but its the best I could do...this footage was taken around mid August 2014


Wow, that's a LOT of birds.
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