I've done a similar trip by motorbike, you'll have a great time!
Don't expect radio stations to reach you once you're away from civilisation, so take tapes, cd's or mp3 player along, the roads are long, straight and quite boring after a while. Keep your driving to daylight hours if you can help it once away from the coast as cattle move onto the road at night, possibly less important in a car but hitting a cow is never going to be nice.
Remember road trains have right of way! Some of the roads you'll drive are 1.5 lanes wide and they expect you to pass with one wheel in the gravel, not the main roads but some of the side ones. If you see a road train or any large truck coming be ready to leave the road because if something pulling three trailers puts a set of wheels in the dirt they can start weaving, so they don't do it.
Do not give petrol to the Aboriginals, they are known to drink it. This is not a joke!
It gets hot, like dashboard melting hot, so be aware if you get back into your car around midday and wonder why your vinyl seats have given you blisters, so by a windscreen shade and/or a sheepskin for your chair.
Buy a tyre repair kit with inflater air cylinder, kind of a spray in and inflate thingy as two punctures before reaching a repair place can easily happen.
Anything else I think of I'll pop on here as I remember.
Have fun
Don't expect radio stations to reach you once you're away from civilisation, so take tapes, cd's or mp3 player along, the roads are long, straight and quite boring after a while. Keep your driving to daylight hours if you can help it once away from the coast as cattle move onto the road at night, possibly less important in a car but hitting a cow is never going to be nice.
Remember road trains have right of way! Some of the roads you'll drive are 1.5 lanes wide and they expect you to pass with one wheel in the gravel, not the main roads but some of the side ones. If you see a road train or any large truck coming be ready to leave the road because if something pulling three trailers puts a set of wheels in the dirt they can start weaving, so they don't do it.
Do not give petrol to the Aboriginals, they are known to drink it. This is not a joke!
It gets hot, like dashboard melting hot, so be aware if you get back into your car around midday and wonder why your vinyl seats have given you blisters, so by a windscreen shade and/or a sheepskin for your chair.
Buy a tyre repair kit with inflater air cylinder, kind of a spray in and inflate thingy as two punctures before reaching a repair place can easily happen.
Anything else I think of I'll pop on here as I remember.
Have fun
