Trip awards !!

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Thought it was time for some trip awards !!


Most useful items on 4WD outback trip
- zip lock Glad bags
-anti-bacterial Wet Wipes
- Robert Harris coffee bags
- aluminum flask water bottles
- Leatherman
- iphone (Grant's opinion only, I don't agree on this one since we didn't have phone or internet most the time)
- GPS

Most wanted item whilst on trip
- 12V fan
- hot showers

Useful items to take next time
- 12V fan
- fuse wire

Best campsite
- Kimberleyland Holiday Park, Kununurra

Worst campsite
- Halls Creek

Best trip
- Horizontal Waterfalls overnight

Funniest moment
- dancing with Popeye the cockatoo to AC/DC "Thunderstruck" at the Zebra Rock Gallery
- close second : trying to use the solar camp shower in the Bungle Bungles in our togs

Most surprising destination
- Kununurra

Best scones
- Ellenbrae Homestead, Gibb River Road

Best gift shop
- Zebra Rock Gallery (great all round experience & yummy smoothies)

Best 4WD road
- tracks at El Questro

Most elusive wildlife
- a snake of any description (didn't see any - in fact haven't see any in the wild during 3 years in Australia)

Most unexciting place
- Fitzroy Crossing & Derby (joint equal)

Average cost per night (for two of accommodation, excl El Questro bungalows)
- $28

Breakdown of trip costs
- 4WD hire 44%
- Tours 21%
- Food & drink 9%
- Accommodation 8%
- Diesel 6%
- Other 12%

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Comments

[ThePass]

GRR
Have really enjoyed your blog. Very nice to see a list of best items for the trip and the cost summary, etc. You didn't see any snakes!! We did a 19,000km trip, mostly coastal, and saw no whales. Wrong season, I guess.