5 April 2024
Yesterday’s (Thursday) rest day gave us time to think about how we should be pacing ourselves on this trip. Our focus to date has been all about giving ourselves “enough time” and then getting ready, equipped, packed and gone. Apart from “leaving Broome sometime in August” and “being back by early January” we deliberately hadn’t done much more planning than that.
However, we’ve realised quite early on that we need to have some sort of pace set out so we don’t get too far ahead of schedule, or too far behind. From leaving Stanthorpe on Monday to arriving in Quilpie on Wednesday, we had averaged 333.3 km per day. Obviously that is a fair bit of driving through some areas we had seen a number of times, but that is still a fairly quick pace.
Doing some calculations last night I worked out that, allowing for decent stays in Darwin, Broome, Perth and Adelaide, and timing our Adelaide arrival to coincide with the Australia Vs India Day/Night Test at the Adelaide Oval (a bucket list experience for me), we only have to average around 55km to 60km per day to arrive in Adelaide by 4 December! So, I guess we need to slow down …
If we are able to keep that pace we should arrive in Darwin around mid June, in Broome in early August, and in Perth in late September. Obviously we’ll have a lot of flexibility, but that at least stops us moving along too quickly.
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