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Published: July 22nd 2013
A few ‘Stats’ for our trip ‘The Wrong Way Around’
As well as an amazing experience, we saw some incredible regions and places within this great country; many of which we know we will return to on future trips we have planned. Some of the spots we loved and would like to return to are The Eyre Peninsular, South West WA, The Northern Kimberley and the Gulf Country. ‘Evergreen favourites’, The Flinders Ranges and the interior of this country are always on our list.
But, in this Blog, the last for this trip, I thought some of you may be interested in a few statistics…so here they are.
· It is a long way around this country and we could have doubled these kilometres but you cannot do everything in one trip; you have to leave some places and ‘things to do’ for the next big trip! As it is we covered a total of 48, 215 Klm.
· And of course you need fuel to cover this distance and we used a total of 8042 Ltrs of diesel.
· That is a lot of fuel, but our rig had a total of close to 5
tonne GVM and a lot of our trip was on dirt, so we were pretty happy with that. What it all means is that we averaged 16Ltrs/100klm, pretty good considering we heard stories of some rigs averaging around 19Ltrs/100klm!
· All this fuel costs money - a lot of it! The total cost of fuel for the trip was $12,414.67
· This means we paid an average of $1.54/Ltr….very good considering, but…
· We had the ability to carry 140 Ltrs of fuel so we were able to drive past many of the expensive fuel stops, such as along the Nullarbor and in Northern WA. We also utilised at every opportunity, where possible, our Coles and Woolies reward dockets which gave at least 4cents off per ltr and on some promotions up to 24 cents off per litre. If you said we saved 4 cents per Ltr on the above stated 8042 Ltrs of fuel, that equals a saving of $321.68, don’t tell me that chasing these rewards are not worth it…after all we had to eat and spend the money on food in the first place.
· So what was the price per litre in
a few of the places we visited? Here are some examples and though the fuel price has changed since we were there (generally gone up!) the percentage difference over regional town or city fuel would still be similar I suspect.
Streaky Bay $1.57 - Nov/11
Nundroo $1.57 - Nov/11
Nullarbor Roadhouse $2.05 (we did not fill here)
Mundrabilla $1.44 - Nov/11
Ravensthorpe $1.61 (we did not fill here)
Kalbarri $1.73 - May/12
Minilya Roadhouse $1.83 - June/12
Fortesque Roadhouse $1.86 - June/11
Sandfire Roadhouse $1.87 - June/12
Mt Barnett (Gibb River Rd) $2.05 - July/12
Kununurra $1.74 - Aug/12
Borroloola $1.80 - Sept/12
Doomadgee $1.90 - Sept/12
Burketown $1.76 - Oct/12
Cooktown $1.55 - Oct/12
· A couple of our better fuel deals with rewards were:
20 cents off per ltr at Kununurra to give a net price of $1.63/Ltr
24 cents off per ltr at Busselton to give a net price of $1.29/Ltr
On top of this major expense you have to ‘live’ and experience the places you visit and that also costs money! We met
a lot of people ‘doing the trip’ of a lifetime, but not doing some of the things that are essential to fulfil the experience because of the cost, such as a helicopter flight over the Bungles. It is a long way back to some of these spots so budget to do a few of these ‘touristy’ but worthwhile experiences when you plan your trip.
It will cost you at least $700 per week to do a trip like this, some weeks will be much more, plan and budget for this or your experience will be diminished. The main criteria is just ‘do it’ and enjoy!
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Matt
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Great photo!
This is a fantastic photo of you two! Jackie obviously knows how to handle the camera quite well ;) I'd like this framed please!