{"id":23108,"date":"2011-03-14T19:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T23:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23108\/great-australia-road-trip-page-3\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:44:52","slug":"great-australia-road-trip-page-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23108\/great-australia-road-trip-page-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Australia Road Trip \u2013 Page Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 4 – Sunday – September 19, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy & Chilly<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Destination:\u00a0 Narooma, New South Wales, Australia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Odometer Reading:\u00a0 95727<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 Don’t know exactly, but it was somewhere close to 384 kilometers (238 miles).\u00a0 From here on I\u2019m going to be able to keep better track of how far we have gone each day now that I have an actual odometer reading to work with.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Price of Fuel:\u00a0 Canberra $75.25 (I\u2019m also going to have to start keeping track of the liter price and how much diesel we\u2019re using)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Route Taken:\u00a0 Queanbeyan to Canberra to Queanbeyan to Bungendore to Doughboy to Braidwood to Bateman’s Bay to Moruya to Narooma<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Highlights:\u00a0 The upper bunk in this motorhome is not the most comfortable place to sleep.\u00a0 First you have to climb up this rickety aluminum ladder to get into it and then the bunk itself has such a low ceiling clearance it\u2019s almost coffin like.\u00a0 I think tonight we\u2019ll make up the back seating area into a full time bed.\u00a0 We might as well take advantage of the extra room in this thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We were up well before the sun today, partly because of the bunk and partly because we\u2019re still on Vegas time.\u00a0 Since we\u2019re on our own that isn\u2019t a problem for us and it just meant that we could get an earlier start.\u00a0 After a quick breakfast, we drove back into Canberra to find some things we wanted to see.\u00a0 After driving around a fair bit (see notes below) we made it to the Dinosaur Museum first.\u00a0 The entry fee was $11.00 per person and it was a fair sized museum with lots of interesting displays.\u00a0 It took about two hours to walk through and we thought it was well worth the stop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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After that we went to the Australia National Museum which was nice, there was no entry fee and it was a large complex, but it had large empty spaces.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t take the camera in with me since I didn\u2019t know if it would be allowed or not and I didn\u2019t want to have to walk all the way back to the motorhome to put it away.\u00a0 Since the motorhome is so large, we had to park out where it would fit and it was a bit of a walk through the parking lot.\u00a0 The exhibits, about seven in all, were really well done and gave a lot of information with interactive displays.\u00a0 We spent quite a bit of time in the invasive species display.\u00a0 There was a map of Australia that showed the historical migratory invasion of different species of animals and plants which was really cool.\u00a0 There was also a historic persons area that was very interesting.\u00a0 It was amazing to see all the different people, from all over the World, that have had some significant effect on Australia throughout history.\u00a0 Even though we thought from the size of the complex that there would be more, it too was well worth the stop.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Stops:\u00a0 There were a lot of stops in Canberra today since we kept getting lost and kept getting into fights with Lee, the guy in the GPS unit.\u00a0 That twit had us going all over in circles all day and I think we called him everything but state-of-the-art.\u00a0 We finally decided to get out of Canberra about 2:00 pm and changed the GPS to Karen.\u00a0 She seems a bit nicer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The nice thing about driving around the Canberra area was that we were able to see some things we have never seen in the States.\u00a0 Large groups of cockatoos just sitting in the grass at the side of the roads.\u00a0 Kangaroos grouped together feeding out in fields.\u00a0 Then there were the teddy bears that were tied to the trees, which I thought was a bit strange, but we used to have a tree with shoes in it in Nevada, so I\u2019ll have to try to find out the story.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Stayed:\u00a0 We made it to Narooma and found a spot to stay at Easts Narooma Shores Holiday Park, which was situated right on the bay.\u00a0 The rate was $31.50 for the night, with the discount that Cheapa rentals receive.\u00a0 We liked the feel of this town a lot and before dinner we took a walk along the water and around the dock.\u00a0 We saw a seal and some really pretty purple jellyfish in the water.\u00a0 The lady at the campground desk had said that the whales were passing by in great numbers so we hope to catch sight of a few before we leave.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Where We Ate:\u00a0 We ate in the motorhome.\u00a0 A dinner of McCain’s frozen beef and pasta dinner with mixed green salad.\u00a0 It was easy and very tasty.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 4 – Sunday – September 19, 2010 Weather:\u00a0 Cloudy & Chilly Destination:\u00a0 Narooma, New South Wales, Australia Odometer Reading:\u00a0 95727 Total Distance Traveled:\u00a0 Don’t know exactly, but it was somewhere close to 384 kilometers (238 miles).\u00a0 From here on I\u2019m going to be able to keep better track of how far we have gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2,25],"tags":[651,2514,2542,2432,2543,2431,398],"class_list":["post-23108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-other","category-world","tag-australia","tag-canberra","tag-dinosaur-museum","tag-motorhome","tag-national-museum","tag-road-trip","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116513,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions\/116513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}