Departure date: 10:25 AM 11 June 2006 Return Date: 1 July 2006
Planned route
Gwydir CP, Moree 11 & 12 June
Bourke 13 June
June 14 - Travel the Bourke to Wilcannia road (350 klm dirt road following the Darling River) and on to Broken Hill.
15 June Adelaide. Visiting with friends and rels for several days
20 June leave Adelaide for Mildura. Take delivery of our Jayco Sterling.
Return to Gold Coast leg is unknown
Tweed Heads to Moree section.
577 kilometres
75.96 litres diesel at 13.1646 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $104.57 at $1.379 per litre
Moree to Bourke section.
464 kilometres
63.56 litres diesel at 13.6983 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $95.28 at $1.499 per litre
Bourke to Broken Hill section.
516 kilometres
68.09 litres diesel at 13.1657 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $97.03 at $1.425 per litre
Broken Hill to Adelaide.
617 kilometres (includes tripping around Adelaide)
83.07 litres diesel at 13.4635 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $113.72 at $1.369 per litre
Adelaide to Mildura.
577 kilometres
75.96 litres diesel at 13.1646 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $104.57 at $1.379 per litre
Mildura to Albury
664 kilometres
126.53 litres diesel at 19.0557 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $178.28 at $1.409 per litre
Note: This leg was with the new van attached.
Albury to Goulburn (via Yackandandah)
455 kilometres
92.87 litres diesel at 20.4110 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $135.50 at $1.459 per litre
Note: Mostly with van, high speed on Hume H'way.
Goulburn to Forster/Tuncurry (via M7 through Sydney)
514 kilometres
93.73 litres diesel at 18.2354 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $133.57 at $1.425 per litre
Note: We traveled through Sydney in the wee hours on the M7.
If you use this road and don't have an eTag you must contact the operators on
13 TOLL or their website, www.roam.com.au.
Click the link to obtain a visitors pass and fill the form, supply your credit card details, rego etc.
for a visitors pass valid for 30 days. Cost at time of writing was $1.50 to register (online) $3.30 (13 TOLL),
$6.01 (class 2 vehicles) toll fee and $0.75 to vehicle validation (check your vehicle against pictures taken on M7).
After you leave the M7 there is another toll for a bit of road run by someone else. that was $4.90 at a human cash booth.
You must do the above (pay) within 48 hours or penalties apply. Their pay system for visitors quite frankly sucks but if you
are unfamiliar with Sydney and just going through stop outside until late evening early morning and take the M7. It's worth the money.
Forster/Tuncurry to Tweed Heads
659 kilometres
119.74 litres diesel at 18.1700 LPH (litres per hundred)
Cost $156.74 at $1.309 per litre
Total distance travelled: 4987 km
Total cost for fuel: $1112.41
Number of litres burned: 792.01
Average fuel consumption: 15.88 litres per hundred kilometres.
