Preparation

It's the 5th of July 2014 and we are due to start our trip along the East coast of Australia in 13 days time. As usual there is a fair amount of preparation going on, generally gathering together all that we will be taking with us in the form of clothes, food, utensils and of course all the necessities for "Buddy" my Border Collie. All the caravan parks that we will be stopping at have been booked. We reviewed the "Activities" at each stopping location, partly to determine what we would like to do and see, and also to gauge the amount of time we estimated we would stay at each location.

Blue Mountain 'Point Settias' - Our Starting point

Our first stop is Arrawarra, about 600 kilometres North of Sydney, keeping us in New South Wales for the first leg of the journey (so that will be a fairly early start).

Our outbound journey will be all North of Sydney; Our final outbound destination being Port Douglas in far North Queensland

Next week I will bring the caravan out of storage and park it at Liz's place as she will be in charge of the caravan and it's contents.

As per the previous trips I have created a spreadsheet that contains all the information for the trip including calculations for costs, travelling times and distances, links to activities etc.

As far as vehicle preparation is concerned, all that (I think) is needed is a wheel rotation and a brake pedal adjustment. My Prado has been very kind to date with no problems (touch wood!).