
From June to August 2023 I backpacked up the East Coast of Australia with my sister. Here are my top tips and what I learnt along the way. Please feel free to drop any questions in the comments, and please let me know if anything is out of date!
Information understood to be correct as of February 2024.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:14 Our route
03:50 Why I love Australia
05:10 What time of year to go to Australia
06:46 Transport
10:19 Hostels
12:36 Route up the East Coast
13:34 Melbourne 🐨
15:18 Sydney 🌉
16:28 Newcastle 🌊
17:20 Spot X 🏄🏼♀️
17:38 Byron Bay 🐬
18:20 Surfer’s Paradise 🏙️
18:48 Brisbane ⛱️
19:40 Noosa 🛶
21:18 K’Gari 🏝️
23:14 Ayr 🤿
22:06 Airlie Beach/Whitsundays ⛵️
23:22 Magnetic Island 🦘
25:05 Cairns 🎡
26:44 Outro
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Great video Megan. Super helpful info here. Good to know your feelings and opinions. I think I'll feel the same about Melbourne lol but I look forward to seeing the street art.
How could you say you did the East Coast of Oz. You spent half your time travelling on bloody planes. If you don't do a road trip from Sydney to Cairns. you aren't done the East Coast. Hire a Camper Van and do it by road. Visit the beautiful coastal National Parks on the way. You wont be disappointed. You just missed out on so much, It's not funny.
You have no idea what you missed by not staying longer in Melbourne, and the state of Victoria ! I Melbourne was the richest city in the world in the mid 1800s due to the goldrush and has fabulous buildings and infrastructure to show for it as well as newer interesting and unique tall buildings. It is the Arts, Academic, Cultural, Sports and Gardens centre of Australia. It has the best coffee and cafe culture in the world. There are over 200 ethnicities living In Melbourne, bringing their customs and food culture to our city. There is so much to see and do in this beautiful city which apparently you didn't do ! The Yarra River and others wind through it and empty into the huge Port Phillip Bay which Melbourne wraps around. And there are beaches closer to the CBD (Central Business District) than in Sydney. The beaches are all around the Bay. The Bay empties into Bass Strait where many ocean beaches can be found, including the ninety-mile long beach. The weather is not 'four seasons in one day', however sometimes it can be changeable which people enjoy. Presently Melbourne is experiencing three days of over 30 degree Celsius hot weather. Radiating out of Melbourne are excellent freeways to the country areas of plains, hills, mountains, valleys, promontories, islands, rivers, lakes , waterfalls, temperate rainforests (with the tallest flowering trees in the world) and alpine forests and deserts. In these areas are National Parks, fauna sanctuaries, Australian Native Botanic Gardens, wine regions, snow fields, gold-mining areas, volcanic craters, caves, rare and ancient geographical sites and historic sites of the ancient indigenous first nations and much later modern settlement. Hopefully you may explore, discover and experience some of this if you come again.