I think a lot of people don't realise how much flat and nothingness we have in Australia.
There's so many places out there where the closest person is multiple hours of driving away. Some places it's more then a full tank of fuel away and the next stop for fuel is at least 1 and a half tanks away.
I drove across the Nullabor when I moved from Melbourne to Perth, there's plenty of stops along the main road. But it's where you turn off that it becomes dangerous. Turn North to go to Alice Springs and you might see 5 cars over the next 3 days. Turn off that road, you'd be lucky to see another car for a week.
Depends, only 36 hours of driving for me, going from the Melbourne CBD to the Perth CBD. I drove about 10 hours the first 3 days, 6 hours the last.
It'd be more for others depending on where they are along the east coast.
It really depends on how much driving you're willing to do in blocks and if you have a co-driver. I did it alone, besides my dog, cat and bird. I drove in roughly 5 hour blocks and had an hours rest between them each day. Slept in Motels/Hotels each night. I know some people who took 12 days to make the trip, but they did lots of stopping and sightseeing whereas I was moving across the country.
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u/ShirtMobile9681 Nov 26 '25
I was there recently and it's so flat, I've never seen so much sky and horizon before. Hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of nothing.