Above, in case you're unsure, is a map of Australia. On it are badly drawn, on MS Paint though may I add, arrows to indicate the very un-concrete, hazy route me and Jack are thinking about taking around Australia. I say un-concrete and hazy because we have absolutely zero idea of which direction we will travel to the places we want to and in what order.
One thing that is definite is that our first point of call will be Brisbane and our second Yamba. You've probably heard of Brisbane, it's a city, it's quite big and it's on the east coast. About five hours south of Brisbane you'll find Yamba - by what I've been told quite a small town. We're only planning on spending a night in Brisbane initially. I land at 7am on the 13th May and so we're intending on spending the day having a wander around Brisbane and then spending the night in a cheap hotel, getting up relatively early and trundling on down to Yamba where Jack is staying at the moment with close family friends who have very kindly said we can stay with them for a week or two to get ourselves sorted for work, at least I'm hoping they have and Jack isn't just keeping his fingers crossed.
From the map you can see the basic idea of where we want to go and the order we think we'll go to them in, notice very loose descriptions to illustrate how loose our plans our.
Essentially, we know we'll be starting in Brisbane/Yamba, we know we want to see Sydney, we know we want to get to Perth at some point, and we know we want to travel up towards Cairns from Brisbane after we've done Perth. Everything is so dependent on money, so until we have some concrete, reliable funds out there we don't really want to set anything to dates. At the moment I think it's going to be a case of me arriving and the first two weeks or so being a very hectic concoction of finding work and setting down our first point of call.
For anyone who doesn't know, Australia is humongous. There is no way on this Earth, that we will be able to travel from one side of Australia to the other, which is what we essentially want to do, in any less than four days. Unless serious lack of sleep and dangerous driving is what we're after, we're not. Therefore we will have to be making stops in between Yamba/Brisbane area and Perth. This is what we've yet to decide. And I have been left with the task of making those decisions. If anyone has any suggestions feel free because I am the worst at making decisions.
Jack has the trip north from Brisbane/Yamba, pretty much sorted. He's already done a bit of travelling in that direction and has picked out a few places he wants to re-visit. We're hoping to go a little bit further north than he has already though, our most northerly point being Cairns. We're also hoping to go diving in the Barrier Reef, a bit of a must if you're in the area I think you'll agree.
At present I think our ideas is to more or less plan it section by section when we come to it. Have rough outlines, but no booking campsites or hostels until we're both there and know exactly what we have in the bank. At present we don't even know when we're coming back, that's how uncertain it all is.
So if there's one thing you can take from this it's that I'm an anxious person doing very well coping with a very unorganised trip of a lifetime.
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