Route advice
Hello,
around April 2012 we´ll arrive in AUS. Most likely in Sydney. Roughly four month later we want to ship from Darwin to Timor del Este.
1) Our Plan A based on weather/travel-season-webpages was so far:
Do a loop in the southwest (on the coast to Melbourne and back through the blue mountains to Sydney).
Go north to the Great Barrier Reef and from there to Darwin.
Nearly everybody tells me since, this is the more boring and touristic route. The much more interesting (less civilisation + more charming) is the west-route.
Beside other arguments those above mentioned webpages all say, that it is "cold and rainy" by then in the south and the (south)-west.
How "cold and rainy" is that?
Are the road conditions affected or roads even impassable?
We ride DRY gravel and dirt roads, but mud and deep sand are not our thing.
2) Which route would you recommend (west or east)?
3) How about non-touristic / a bit off the beaten track routes from Sydney to the Great Barrier Reef?
Greetings from Patagonia
Panny
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