Q&A: THE BIG LAP AUSTRALIA ROAD TRIP! Watch This Before You Road Trip Australia
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- Hey guys! We answer all the major questions you may have before you start your road trip around Australia. Before we started our Big Lap of Australia we wanted to know:
How much?
What route?
What vehicle?
Mistakes/highlights?
All the above questions and more are answered in this Big Lap wrap up vlog.
Skip ahead here 👇
0:00 intro
0:49 How long does one lap of Australia take?
2:08 How much did fuel cost?
3:02 How much does the big lap cost altogether?
6:15 How much should you budget for food?
7:14 What vehicle should you take?
10:52 Which mobile provider should you use?
14:05 What route should you take?
16:42 Best time of year to be in each state?
17:23 What problems will you encounter?
19:06 Fuel tips!
20:06 Food and water tips!
21:50 What apps you should use on the big lap?
24:50 What was our favourite place on the big lap?
26:27 Favourite places in Western Australia for a road trip?
27:20 A place not worth the hype?
29:28 Places that surprised us the most?
32:23 Favourite hiking destination in all of Australia?
34:23 What mistakes did we make along the way?
35:07 How did we balance being present and creating content?
37:46 Would you do the big lap again?
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Dont get hung up on what you SHOULD have done, YOU DID IT!..Every age group has its way of traveling.JUST DO IT! And yes once around is not enough....
100%! Everyone’s journey on the lap is different. Sometimes it’s hard to accept you won’t see everything you want to on your first lap but hey you can always go again!
Really enjoyed watching your trip you guys!! And a great sum up in this video .. cheers from Tauranga NZ
Thank you so much Phil! We’re glad you enjoying our trip/summary. We’re missing beautiful Australia. Hopefully we make it over to NZ in the near future
Most concise and informative video of the big trip!
Thanks First Light 🙌🏼 happy to help!
Hi guys! I just finally started the idea of doing the big lap and wanna say your video was great! Supper informative, well made. Congratulations 🤘🏼
Amazing! If you have any questions please feel free to send us a message on Instagram x
An amazing trip!! We’re currently in Sydney after road tripping from Melbourne! Can’t wait to road trip again after Sydney!! 🌎🇦🇺
You guys will have an amazing time. Keep up the great work 🤩
Awesome! I've completed the full lap in 2 years time in a Mazda6 Wagon! 🚙🦘
Epic! Good work 😊
Thanks guys x
Thanks for watching Connie! 😃
That is an incredible presentation of your experience and amazing advice.!!!
Well done, thank you. The journey you did was a mission in that vehicle.
I have been to every state and territory in OZ and many parts in between but not enough of it.
Good timing to watch as I am planning to do the "big lap" myself, on my own.
I do have a 4WD dual cab ute vehicle....which im thinking is a good start.
Was thinking of a roof top tent set up but hearing you both I may be better off with a camper trailer.
Thanks for the tips. 👍👍👍👍
Hi Jonny, thank you for watching. We’re glad that it’s helping you plan your trip. I think you’ll have a much better time with a camper trailer. Even if it’s a small one. Just a base you can drop off at campsites and explore some of the more rugged tracks in your 4WD. You could even keep a swag onboard just in case you come across somewhere outstanding that you have to stay at!
@@cjexplores Huge thanks again mate....ive already been researching camper trailers as a result. "nice to have a house on wheels" and then explore. As you say, park it somewhere awesome and explore. My best wishes to both of you.
Have subbed so looking forward to going through your back catalogue of posts. 👍👍
@@jonnythunder92 oh awesome mate, glad we could help! Enjoy 😊
@@jonnythunder92hey Jonny! I’ve got a Mitsubishi Triton dual cab too. You just made me think I perhaps could use my car (I was thinking of buying a toyota trophy carrier..). Anyway, which car are you hitting the road with? :)
Thank you so much for your video, it was so honest. One of the bests so far! Question: do you think you would be more comfortable if you had a bigger car and a good hard top roof tent (that you can set up in 3 seconds)? Asking because I'm considering that setup. After watching your video I'll look to buy a decent fan as well haha
Hi Leticia 👋🏼 thanks for watching! We would definitely recommend doing it in a bigger vehicle if you can afford to do so. The hard top roof tents are also much quicker and easier to setup. The main reason we choose the inflatable tent was because it was less than half the weight of the others! But if we did this again we would choose a big van that we could stand up in and have an area we could sit inside and work in 😉
Thank you
Hope it helps! ✌🏼
What type of motorcycle would you do it on. Did you see many? Maybe road bike or adventure bike?
Definitely not a road bike… I’d do it on the Africa twin, or a Tenere 700 😉
Was that weekly budget per person or for the two of you? Thanks so much for your video!
That was for the both of us! Sorry, we should have clarified 😅
Internet coverage anyone used starlink?
Great question, we heard about people who had them installed on caravans and it sounded like a great idea! Best people to ask would be Starlink themselves 😉
Hi could tell me the best route which has amazing view with the coast etc for 5-6 days
Of course! The Great Ocean Road is one of the best! But even the drive from Sydney heading north is incredible and you could take a week to get to Brisbane quite easily. If you want to visit the west coast we hold dearly the South West. From Perth down to Margaret River region and on to Esperance
Thank you so much for your response but let me explain for you what I wanna do, I wanna drive everyday for 300-400 km that’s fine for me but I wanna finally get to Airlie beach because I also wanna visit white haven beach so I am not sure if I would drive to the other side or to Brisbane side directly I mean which one is better and I also worry because of the duration that could not be enough
Or do you think drive to the great ocean and cancel the white haven beach and Brisbane I mean would be more enjoyable than going to Airlie beach just to go to Whitehaven beach
I would have time from 21 February to 27 or 28
If you just want to drive then maybe starting at the Great Ocean Road and heading around to Sydney and then further North. You could make it to Airlie Beach in a week I think. But it would be a lot of driving!!
Can I do the lap in one month? I don't get a long vacation spanning months.
You could probably drive it in a month but I’m not sure what the point would be as you would be driving for all of your waking hours 😂 better off flying to one beautiful place and exploring the local region 😁 or take one of the amazing train journeys across the country
With only a month available I would recommend that you go for quality of experience rather than quantity of distance covered. You are much better off focussing on a region and focus on that with only a month.
@@dennisspackman7147 sound advice Dennis 🙏🏼😁
Did you guys not know that Australia gets hot?
Your year round tan gave us suspicions… 😂
Can you tell me the total distance of it. ...pleeeeezzzz
30,000km 😉
I am from India and I will do the big lap ...solo on my motercycle...
@@hrithikraj6862 amazing 🤩 I hope you have a comfortable seat 😁
I don't know about the seats but I have a comfortable butt cheeks 🤣🤣🤣
What is the best time to do the big lap ?
saw lot of you and almost nothing of Australia
Did you watch our other videos?
Accents! All over the place! I can hear Pom, Aus and Kiwi shifting in and out. Charlotte, nope, I've no idea. The occasional rising inflection at the end of a sentence is Aus, the rest, no idea. Essex? Or SW of London? I do think both accents have changed from the beginning. WA is more English, that's possible, there's almost no Queensland, thank goodness, and no-one wants anything to do with Sictoria, or their horrible accent.
Lol
🤣 your comment gave us both a good laugh Trevor! We are just as confused as you are. We both often get mistaken for Australian as well as British and very occasionally kiwis 🤣 Charlotte is from Cornwall, and I am from New Zealand 😉
Question to the dude. What's up with the hair bun??
Hahaha bit skewiff isn’t it? 😅
Could you show more landscapes and then talk instead of showing yourself and talking I'd rather watch some interesting views and landscapes 😁😄
😅 thanks for the feedback Vitek 🙏🏼 we do have a whole playlist dedicated to our big lap of Australia if you wanted to see more of the footage we used!
How privileged and rich do you need to be to waste 7 months driving around the great big nothing?
We’re not rich. We lived off a budget and saved. We had very normal jobs in Aus.
Waste? 99.999% people waste their lives. It’s ridiculous to read your words. These people had a dream and they did it. Unlike the majority who are watching news and football with beer and junk food
@@alohafamily1 ❤️❤️❤️ 100% agree with you 🙌🏼
A lot 😊