Fuel Costs. It cost me $700 to drive from Melbourne to Perth then back to Melbourne, 7000km total round trip. Fuel costs $1.46 per litre for 91, i carried 2 spare 20L petrol cans because Cocklepiddy and many other service stations out there charge $1.80 to $2.00 per litre for 91. Even more for Diesel. So my advice is Carry 2 or more spare 20L petrol canisters and use those at the most expensive petrol stations. I estimated i saved myself about $300 in additional fuel costs.
Someone posted a timelapse of driving from Washington DC to Seattle and it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen, seeing the clmate, topography and vegetation of an entire continent slowly change. What I'm saying is, I'm looking forward to this vid mate
My parents moved me from Melbourne to Whyalla in January 1974 over two days by car. I moved from Whyalla to Adelaide (by bus) in July 1982. On the bus trip, I saw the 'Christmas Tree" lights at Port Pirie at 2:30AM and passed through the main street of Snowtown at 3:30AM. due to the darkness, I did not see the Bank SA branch at Snowtown. Arrived in Adelaide at 6AM.
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm French and since Australia is really far away, it's really cool to "see it' from that perspective. Greetings from France :)
Just finished Part 1, two parts to go! Ten years ago I did Melbourne to Townsville and back in a Ford Laser with no cruise control, I think my right foot is still aching! Went up there using the inland route and came back down the coast, loved it and would do it again in a heartbeat. Have also done Melbourne - Brisbane and back a couple of times, and the Melbourne - Sydney commute more times than I could count. I miss being on the road! Have never driven the Nullarbor though - it's definitely one for my bucket list. In the meantime I'm travelling vicariously through your videos :) Thanks for all the effort you took to record and post them!
I watched this the whole 3 part series took me a while to get through it.Congratulations on a great journey,a ride I would love to do one day.Perth is lovely.Hope to see more of your travel blogs again soon.Safe travels.
Much appreciated. I was actually working on a prototype camera mount for a camcorder for my dash camera when I plan to travel around aus soon. I’ve got my van.now I just need to sort the camera gear and budgets for travel and I’m set. I’ve done the maths and it would be around 150 hours of footage to watch
@@AridersLifeYT when I watched your video across the Nullabore to Perth last year got me through one of the many lockdowns I'm in Melbourne.Look forward to seen more of your travel videos.
What's the name of your traveling you tube channel when you finally get going around Australia so I can keep an eye out for it.Thanks keep up the great travels.
As an American, I live in California never been anywhere out of the country. I love Australia, I watch many Aussie youtubers and I one day plan to move here after doing three years of holiday visas. If/when I move there I plan to travel from coast to coast for vacations. Also love the video mate. I am one in many Americans that say mate regularly.
Watched total of your videos in almost a week. I watched partly for every 1 hour pause, sometimes 2 times watched in 1 hour then and 1 hour left in a day.
After Port Wakefield you ended up on the copper coast hwy before taking a scenic-scary drive down a dirt road to get back to the a1. Full-on! I don't like to rely on GPS especially when I've never been somewhere. I prefer to use Google maps -without navigation and read the road shield numbers.
The longest stint I have ever done is Sydney to Adelaide in 1 go when picking up a car, I don't recommend trying to do a 14 hour drive in one go lmao but I am a lunatic. Started 6am arrived home roughly around 8-8:30pm. I remember listening to Hamish and Andy podcasts haha for the most of it haha
@@AridersLifeYT I don't think I would ever do it again haha It seems so easy when you think about it but around the 6 hour mark I was really wondering if I would do another 8 hours haha.
@@AridersLifeYT This is the kind of the long distance trip video I am looking for too. No speedups, and mostly no skips too (although IIRC you said about storage space in the beginning of the video). Hopefully more users create videos like this.
Add some subtitles for the highway number and towns you're passing through (for those of us watching at double speed). Trying to follow your route on a map - as soon as it got dark it was hopeless. I'll skip the rest and move to day 2. :-)
At 5.45 minute you asked what Bridge you were crossing. It was the Swanport Bridge crossing the Murray River only a few miles from Murray Bridge at the start of the Southeastern Freeway into Adelaide.
Talk about the Nullarbor being creepy, you should drive the Pilliga at night and record it too! The video with something hitting the guy in the jeep if you've seen it is great! My god that place looks terrifying at night.
Hello, yes thats one thing australia does well, The national Highway is well looked after. Constantly getting upgraded for wider lanes and future development. We have a high tax rate so thats what most of the money goes to.
The sound of rubber hitting bitumen. Or the engine humming along. Either way, completely hypnotised me and sent me off. Nice and relaxing sound from my end.
As an addendum, I don't have a particular interest in wanting to drive but I couldn't find any use in driving long distances. The relaxing sound will get me into trouble.
Did you plan the drive by taking into account the next stops for lunch, dinner and sleep since there could be hours of emptiness in between towns or civilization.
I think i have watched this video couple of times skipping some part, i m planning to do adelaide to sydney next yr jan, straight up, n on my way back home, planning to do sydney to adelaide via melbourne. 🖤 ur trip.
I have done the sydney to adelaide before, are you going direct, or via the costal roads ? i went direct. i plan to post more videos of thse in due time.
Love this video so much! I rather have radio in the background so I just play the radio online in another tab quietly in the background, makes it seem like it was normally in the video
Only in Australia where you can befriend with complete strangers just because your vehicles are 3 seconds/100m apart for hours at a time and both with cruise control turned on. This is how new friends were made on the road.
I really wanna do something like this. I currently drive a small Lancer and am looking to get an SUV of some sort. Will be great to get out of Melbourne.
of course they do, they will always do that. Its bio security, they drug test and check all fruits, etc etc. its to stop people bringing in fruit fly and other diseases from interstate plants. they went through everything in my car. i have no issues, they just doing their job.
Pretty much, Sydney to perth Newyork To LA Melbourne to Perth Google Says New York to LA is 41hrs, same as Syd to perth, Melb to Perth is 37hrs, so yes its pretty much the same, id say
This is probably one of the neatest videos I have ever seen on TH-cam! How exciting to get to go on a road trip in Australia from my home country of Peru! Thank you! By the way, what kind of car is it that you are driving? Thank you.
What are you filming on? I’d love to record my 8 hour road trip to Chicago. Just looking for something to continually record like your videos. Thanks in advance!
Hello. This was recorded on a gopro hero 3 black. But now I have a blackvue dash camera. However now days 8 have a hero 7 black. Ill upgrade to a camcorder in due time.
Hi there! I’m planning to also do this road trip! A little question; you parked on the side of the road. Is that okay or can you get in problems with that?
Hello - at 10:09:11 - im on the side of the road, i stayed there over night as i slept in my camper. This is fine. It was loud because of all the tucks going past all night. I was going to drive to the caravan parking area and sleep but i was too tired to. you can park anywhere aslong as you have given room for other cars.
How many sd cards did this take?! Were you listening to music thru earphones? I would've gone mental without any tunes after the first couple of hours.
Hey Mick, nah no music, just driving alone.thinking about stuff. it was about pretty large, i think i had 9 32GB SD cards and i was transferring them to the laptop every day.
@@AridersLifeYT yeah I thought you had multiple cards, just didn't know how many and how much storage on each. I've got a 64gig card and I'm lucky if I get 7 days on the card.
It seems Australia is a smaller country than U.S.A and Canada is. For those other two places, it'd take a few days to drive across. This would only take over one day to do so.
lol nah thats a common misconception. 3300miles east coast to west in usa 3130miles east coast to west in Aus aus will take longer even tho the distance is shorter because its mostly speed capped to 60mph
I want to drive from Victoria to Perth. Cannot do that with my current car because it's dedicated gas. Thanks for this video. I also love driving videos in general.
Hi Bikestuff, I'm thinking to drive my Nissan X-trail to Perth with my friends. Do you think I need to stop over somewhere to rest the car or drive straight up to Perth is fine? I need advice as all of us are girls, we quite worry with the long journey
Hello, where are you driving from, you dont want to drive at night due to the heavy wildlife. i hit 3 kangaroos, and 1 wombat on this trip as i was driving at night. bullbar helps. The entire trip from melb to perth was 35hours. its a long trip, i would recommend you stop and stay somewhere each night, roughly every 700km.
@@AridersLifeYT Great video mate. thank you for sharing.l am planning a road trip the same way from Melbourne. Could you please tell me where is your first second and third stop when you driving out of Adelaide. That would help me a lot Thanks a million.
Id say about 12hrs to upload each video. Each video was about 350gb in file size. However it took youtube 1 week to render and update the videos to 1080pHD.
3 minutes 40 and it starts raining 😎 Great video mate 👍 Whoa, about ten seconds before you made your comment about the copyright on your music playing, I had exactly the same thought 😳 😵 That Big Sky at 11.03 😍 What is the second dipstick you pull out at 10:27:20 ish ?
BikeStuff ahhok. Just so you know. I’m watching this to kill the boredom that has been brought on by the rona lol. And also because I’m craving country travel so bad. Adelaide resident here :)
I haven’t got my license yet but bloody hell, that’s a long drive, I’ve sat in the back of the car for an 11 hr stint up to Parkes NSW, got stuck at so many bloody freight trains that delayed us by about 3 hrs, didn’t help that we ended up staying in a shit motel for the night.
BikeStuff I like the long drives, as long as I have a leg stretcher every 3 hrs or it just gets a bit too much. I liked that you had no radio, in my opinion it’s better.
about 3hrs 50mins per 32gb card at 1080p 30fps. i had 6 SD cards, and was transferring the video over to the laptop hard drive every day. total was about 400gb
@@AridersLifeYT Hi, thanks for reply. Well, that is not an option for me, I will need to fill up my car with my stuff, no space. Any tips of where you reckon I can sleep over (motels/towns).
It depends on where you are driving from and how many days you are planning the trip. id recommend you use google maps to plot the driving route. and book hotels / motels in advance. i cant really give you any advice on motels because i was going to stay in cocklepiddy and they wanted $150 for a room for 1 night so i said no.
Hello Dennis, i left at 1pm. I wanted to leave at 6am but a 3rd check on the car i discovered i had major transmission leak. So i spent 5 hours fixing that. I left on a Friday afternoon.
Hello Dennis, i did but i got Audio copyright claimed and removed. So next time i do the trip again i will do it without music. That might be awhile away tho. Depending if i buy a new van in December.
Wow man, I just checked how many kilometers your trip is and tried to make an itinerary from my house to a location at +-37h of road.... Damn, Australia is fucking huge ! I'd had to go nearly 8h of road further than Moscow to make the same trip as you ! :o Australia didn't look that huge in what I remember from my geography class book :D jeeeeez'
@@AridersLifeYT because of the stupid mercator map that shrinks all countries to the south of the planet and oversizes the northern ones like Europe and north America
Would also cost way too much to add lanes to all the Inland highways, for example, the Stuart highway alone is over 2000km of road that would need to have lanes added. Just not worth the money
Australia has less people than California, and even then, around 99% of its population living in like 2% of land area. The other 98% is simply too empty, almost devoid of settlement, road widening project is unneeded.
about 3 months ago i drove a 6X6 land rover perentie from melbourne to just south of perth took 5 days driving at 90kph max and no night driving found it somewhat relaxing
TH-cam wont let you upload a video longer then 12hrs..Due to the video size, about 130GB for 11hrs it took me about 4hrs to upload 1 video, youtube took about 3 days to render it at 1080P. I plan to do a 135hr video. thats going to be uploaded in 5hr increments
hi , one question , i am going to travel from Melbourne to perth, do i need to apply permission for crossing south australia border also to enter western australia? thank you
Ballarat is nowhere near melbourne, at least 2 hours from melbourne, well from where i am in melbourne, the northern edge of melbourne. Still a long drive tho.
@@AridersLifeYT but still ballarat is another city and you cant really call it melbourne when there are many paddocks separating ballarat from the western fringe of melbourne, its not far but still very different.
On the way back a guy passed me doing 160. He was caught about 1hr from Bordertown. Cop let him go but he still go the fine, so he will have his taken impounded for 30 days and loose his license for 12 months. Lucky the cop was nice, otherwise he is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Fuel Costs. It cost me $700 to drive from Melbourne to Perth then back to Melbourne, 7000km total round trip. Fuel costs $1.46 per litre for 91, i carried 2 spare 20L petrol cans because Cocklepiddy and many other service stations out there charge $1.80 to $2.00 per litre for 91. Even more for Diesel. So my advice is Carry 2 or more spare 20L petrol canisters and use those at the most expensive petrol stations. I estimated i saved myself about $300 in additional fuel costs.
BikeStuff can you do melbourne to darwin NT ??
@@RED_STAR_89 i would love too, maybe soon
@@AridersLifeYT Preferrably using the route through Alice Springs, would be best!
@@m1992-m9e Driving from Melb to perth with Alice detour is another 10hours out of the way, people dont realise the distance (1300km) extra
@@AridersLifeYT I meant Melbourne-Darwin through Alice Springs. Not to Perth.
Mom said 1 more video before bed.
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Am dead🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Someone posted a timelapse of driving from Washington DC to Seattle and it's one of the most fascinating things I've ever seen, seeing the clmate, topography and vegetation of an entire continent slowly change. What I'm saying is, I'm looking forward to this vid mate
My parents moved me from Melbourne to Whyalla in January 1974 over two days by car. I moved from Whyalla to Adelaide (by bus) in July 1982. On the bus trip, I saw the 'Christmas Tree" lights at Port Pirie at 2:30AM and passed through the main street of Snowtown at 3:30AM. due to the darkness, I did not see the Bank SA branch at Snowtown. Arrived in Adelaide at 6AM.
Thank you so much for these videos! I'm French and since Australia is really far away, it's really cool to "see it' from that perspective. Greetings from France :)
Thankyou. much appreciated.
I have no clue why but this is really relaxing to fall asleep to as you drive and occasionally ramble
Lol, thanks
Silly me thought the video was 11:57 mins long and this would be a time lapse.
I made a time lapse of it, 35hrs in 3mins50 seconds. its way to fast. kind of hurts your eyes watching it
Could it be possible if you were able to post the timelapse video? Ihad a look in you channel and I couldn't find it, cheers!
lol & otherside i am struggling with 5 mint uploads.
@@planetx1595 I tried to find the Hyper lapse and was unable too, sorry
@@AridersLifeYT Recommend either live stream xD
Just finished Part 1, two parts to go!
Ten years ago I did Melbourne to Townsville and back in a Ford Laser with no cruise control, I think my right foot is still aching! Went up there using the inland route and came back down the coast, loved it and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Have also done Melbourne - Brisbane and back a couple of times, and the Melbourne - Sydney commute more times than I could count. I miss being on the road!
Have never driven the Nullarbor though - it's definitely one for my bucket list. In the meantime I'm travelling vicariously through your videos :) Thanks for all the effort you took to record and post them!
Most welcome, this is why I posted these videos because I knew people would love to watch
I am from Malaysia . Thank You so much for posting this epic journey .
I'm glad I watched all 12 hours. I now know how to get to Perth.
I watched this the whole 3 part series took me a while to get through it.Congratulations on a great journey,a ride I would love to do one day.Perth is lovely.Hope to see more of your travel blogs again soon.Safe travels.
Much appreciated. I was actually working on a prototype camera mount for a camcorder for my dash camera when I plan to travel around aus soon. I’ve got my van.now I just need to sort the camera gear and budgets for travel and I’m set. I’ve done the maths and it would be around 150 hours of footage to watch
@@AridersLifeYT when I watched your video across the Nullabore to Perth last year got me through one of the many lockdowns I'm in Melbourne.Look forward to seen more of your travel videos.
@@jacintadunn9380 I’m back in Melbourne also. I was here for the lockdown and it sucked
What's the name of your traveling you tube channel when you finally get going around Australia so I can keep an eye out for it.Thanks keep up the great travels.
I’m currently watching your journey mate, cheers from 🇨🇦
You are a machine son👍
You have inspired me to do this amazing trip🚘
As an American, I live in California never been anywhere out of the country. I love Australia, I watch many Aussie youtubers and I one day plan to move here after doing three years of holiday visas. If/when I move there I plan to travel from coast to coast for vacations. Also love the video mate. I am one in many Americans that say mate regularly.
I want to do the same for America lol :D
Awesome drive. Thanks for the memories ❤ Have done the same trip from Perth to Melbourne in the same time in a Holden Astra 😀
most welcome
This is such a good form of escapism
absolute legend
thanks
Watched total of your videos in almost a week. I watched partly for every 1 hour pause, sometimes 2 times watched in 1 hour then and 1 hour left in a day.
That's awesome to hear.
Great video!
Watching from South Africa. 🇿🇦
Thanks for watching!
Loved this videos,this is epic and looking forward to the next 2 episodes 😀
@@thamestrains thanks for watching
Its on my bucket list to watch this entire video.
It's on my bucket list to do the entire trip myself. Peace and love my friend.
Thankyou
After Port Wakefield you ended up on the copper coast hwy before taking a scenic-scary drive down a dirt road to get back to the a1. Full-on! I don't like to rely on GPS especially when I've never been somewhere. I prefer to use Google maps -without navigation and read the road shield numbers.
yeah stupid gps reckons it was a short cut, but it assumed 100kmh speeds lol.
just found your channel,am watching in 1 hour shots,very relaxing,thanks for the pazy seat view.
most welcome
I put my earplugs on and the sound of the tires on the road put me right to sleep. I have the volume maxed out so everything else is tuned out.
Be careful, there is a few random screaming moments.
@@AridersLifeYT lol
I'm watching this at double speed and it's still taking forever.
I saw the title, I clicked it, 11hours ride, respect, liked/subbed and comment. Yeeah MATE!
Thank you
The longest stint I have ever done is Sydney to Adelaide in 1 go when picking up a car, I don't recommend trying to do a 14 hour drive in one go lmao but I am a lunatic. Started 6am arrived home roughly around 8-8:30pm. I remember listening to Hamish and Andy podcasts haha for the most of it haha
Yeah that 14 hrs is commendable. When i drove back to Melb from Perth, i did 4am to 10pm, slept 8hrs as soon as i climbed into the canopy.
@@AridersLifeYT I don't think I would ever do it again haha It seems so easy when you think about it but around the 6 hour mark I was really wondering if I would do another 8 hours haha.
i loved it, ill do it again for sure. infacr im going to qld soon. so thats going to be another video
A perfect way to fill in my weekend!
Thanks for watching
@@AridersLifeYT This is the kind of the long distance trip video I am looking for too. No speedups, and mostly no skips too (although IIRC you said about storage space in the beginning of the video).
Hopefully more users create videos like this.
@@TimBluesWin1996 I plan to do more in 2021!!
Add some subtitles for the highway number and towns you're passing through (for those of us watching at double speed). Trying to follow your route on a map - as soon as it got dark it was hopeless. I'll skip the rest and move to day 2. :-)
that would take hours to do, its not worth my time to do all that tbh.
Hello its a great video just wounding how long will it be now for the around Australia footage
the drive around australia footage would be 140 hours long
And when will it be uploaded
when i get a chance to sit down and collate it all. sorry, but that alone could be 30hrs work
Ok
At 5.45 minute you asked what Bridge you were crossing. It was the Swanport Bridge crossing the Murray River only a few miles from Murray Bridge at the start of the Southeastern Freeway into Adelaide.
Talk about the Nullarbor being creepy, you should drive the Pilliga at night and record it too! The video with something hitting the guy in the jeep if you've seen it is great! My god that place looks terrifying at night.
Simply mesmerising 🙏🙏🙏
Loved your expressways... love great Australia😘
Billions of likes👍👍👍👍👍
Love from Bharatvarsh😘😘😘
Hello, yes thats one thing australia does well, The national Highway is well looked after. Constantly getting upgraded for wider lanes and future development. We have a high tax rate so thats what most of the money goes to.
Bharatvarsh which country are you from?
Yep, the roads are bloody good in Aus. A stark contrast to the UK.
The sound of rubber hitting bitumen.
Or the engine humming along.
Either way, completely hypnotised me and sent me off.
Nice and relaxing sound from my end.
As an addendum, I don't have a particular interest in wanting to drive but I couldn't find any use in driving long distances.
The relaxing sound will get me into trouble.
@@APH1991 totally agree, thats one reason why i enjoyed driving without the radio. just living in my mind thinking while i drive.
Did you plan the drive by taking into account the next stops for lunch, dinner and sleep since there could be hours of emptiness in between towns or civilization.
I knew roughly rhe distances between places. Thats it. It wasn't tourist related travel. It was to move to Perth.
Do you like KATSUDON ? That's very good. Lots of Thanks from Japan. I really enjoyed your trip!
YES! Japanese food is the BEST!
The sun in my eyes and I am not even driving I must be crazy 😵 . good buy with your film.
the glare isnt that bad with the sun visor.
Did you have anything to listen to, music or audiobooks in earphones or whatnot?
Nah done the entire drive without music. It was therapeutic.
I think i have watched this video couple of times skipping some part, i m planning to do adelaide to sydney next yr jan, straight up, n on my way back home, planning to do sydney to adelaide via melbourne. 🖤 ur trip.
I have done the sydney to adelaide before, are you going direct, or via the costal roads ? i went direct.
i plan to post more videos of thse in due time.
BikeStuff i plan doing straight up north when travelling sydney n coastal when coming back to adelaide via Melbourne.
Good views.This land is a mystery.
Love this video so much! I rather have radio in the background so I just play the radio online in another tab quietly in the background, makes it seem like it was normally in the video
most welcome, id love to do more of these super long drives. in due time i suppose. thanks for watching
I did an armchair drive with your video. Nevertheless I went to the Settings and adjusted the playback speed to 2. Thanks.
Only in Australia where you can befriend with complete strangers just because your vehicles are 3 seconds/100m apart for hours at a time and both with cruise control turned on. This is how new friends were made on the road.
exactly
I really wanna do something like this. I currently drive a small Lancer and am looking to get an SUV of some sort. Will be great to get out of Melbourne.
SUV will be terrible for fuel consumption. Nothing wrong with a Lancer.
@@AridersLifeYT that's true. Either way, awesome video mate!
Thanks, in due time i plan to post the 200hour drive around aus.
Awesome . I never been there before !
Anyone know does the bio security gave you a hard time going threw?
of course they do, they will always do that. Its bio security, they drug test and check all fruits, etc etc. its to stop people bringing in fruit fly and other diseases from interstate plants. they went through everything in my car. i have no issues, they just doing their job.
35 hours to drive on ONE country???
it would take 135hours minimun to drive around the country in 1 loop. 35 hours just to drive fron west coast to east.
Hello mate, Did you get a special insurance? I am afraid to get stuck in the middle of the desert.
Normal road side. Its not a desert. There are towns every 4 hours.
Thank you so much for this :)
It looks crazy. But worth do it. From Melbourne to Perth is similar distance from New York to LA?
Pretty much,
Sydney to perth
Newyork To LA
Melbourne to Perth
Google Says New York to LA is 41hrs, same as Syd to perth, Melb to Perth is 37hrs, so yes its pretty much the same, id say
BikeStuff make sense. You are so good👍. I drove from Melbourne to Sydney that quite tired.
@@haoranliu7339 Hopefully after this quartine is finished. i can drive all around australia and post the 140hr video :-D
BikeStuff excellent. Will you follow the A1 around Australia?
@@haoranliu7339 most likely
You know, mad fuckin respect for the one who manage to watch these clips 35 hours non stop
I play some games while this played in the background. How's that idea??
This is probably one of the neatest videos I have ever seen on TH-cam! How exciting to get to go on a road trip in Australia from my home country of Peru! Thank you! By the way, what kind of car is it that you are driving? Thank you.
Hello, the car is a Holden VU ute. Glad you liked the video :-)
Big.brother.melbourne.city.se.perth.city.me.kitni.distanse.ha
love the scenery. i want to retire in australia so bad. if i ever save any money, that's where i want to be.
What are you filming on? I’d love to record my 8 hour road trip to Chicago. Just looking for something to continually record like your videos. Thanks in advance!
Hello. This was recorded on a gopro hero 3 black. But now I have a blackvue dash camera. However now days 8 have a hero 7 black. Ill upgrade to a camcorder in due time.
Hi there! I’m planning to also do this road trip! A little question; you parked on the side of the road. Is that okay or can you get in problems with that?
Hello - at 10:09:11 - im on the side of the road, i stayed there over night as i slept in my camper. This is fine. It was loud because of all the tucks going past all night. I was going to drive to the caravan parking area and sleep but i was too tired to. you can park anywhere aslong as you have given room for other cars.
How many sd cards did this take?! Were you listening to music thru earphones? I would've gone mental without any tunes after the first couple of hours.
Hey Mick, nah no music, just driving alone.thinking about stuff. it was about pretty large, i think i had 9 32GB SD cards and i was transferring them to the laptop every day.
@@AridersLifeYT yeah I thought you had multiple cards, just didn't know how many and how much storage on each. I've got a 64gig card and I'm lucky if I get 7 days on the card.
Relaxing to watch👍
Would be great to put a small map somewhere on the corner showing where you are exactly...good video man.
I considered that but my laptop barely rendered this video let alone with extra gps effects
It seems Australia is a smaller country than U.S.A and Canada is. For those other two places, it'd take a few days to drive across. This would only take over one day to do so.
lol nah thats a common misconception.
3300miles east coast to west in usa
3130miles east coast to west in Aus
aus will take longer even tho the distance is shorter because its mostly speed capped to 60mph
Abracadabra, beautiful sunset.
I want to drive from Victoria to Perth. Cannot do that with my current car because it's dedicated gas. Thanks for this video. I also love driving videos in general.
yeah you wouldn't get far past the SA border with dedicated gas as all the servos are Petrol and Diesel. glad you enjoyed the video
@@AridersLifeYT Abracadabra 🧞
Hi Bikestuff, I'm thinking to drive my Nissan X-trail to Perth with my friends. Do you think I need to stop over somewhere to rest the car or drive straight up to Perth is fine? I need advice as all of us are girls, we quite worry with the long journey
Hello, where are you driving from, you dont want to drive at night due to the heavy wildlife. i hit 3 kangaroos, and 1 wombat on this trip as i was driving at night. bullbar helps. The entire trip from melb to perth was 35hours. its a long trip, i would recommend you stop and stay somewhere each night, roughly every 700km.
@@AridersLifeYT Great video mate. thank you for sharing.l am planning a road trip the same way from Melbourne. Could you please tell me where is your first second and third stop when you driving out of Adelaide. That would help me a lot Thanks a million.
Hi Yen have you done the trip
How long did it take to upload video to You Tube?
Id say about 12hrs to upload each video.
Each video was about 350gb in file size.
However it took youtube 1 week to render and update the videos to 1080pHD.
@@AridersLifeYT Thanks for your info. Do you have ADSL or Broadband? Here in Oz we have Broadband.
@@RichardFelstead1949 Im located in regional victoria. we have NBN at home. 100/40
great video but what was the stop at 3:55:55 for
replying to SMS's
wait, i can hear the beeping, im also resetting the computers Trip meter on the car, to calculate fuel.
I was thinking something like that @@AridersLifeYT
3 minutes 40 and it starts raining 😎 Great video mate 👍 Whoa, about ten seconds before you made your comment about the copyright on your music playing, I had exactly the same thought 😳 😵 That Big Sky at 11.03 😍 What is the second dipstick you pull out at 10:27:20 ish ?
Hello, thanks for watching!
10:27:20 ish - those are transmission and engine oil dipsticks. this car has a pretty reliable old buick engine.
@@AridersLifeYT Transmission dipstick too, cool ! 👍
I like it very much, thank you
I'm glad you like it
Where in Melbourne did you start from? Outskirts?
Abracadabra
Outer west, near ballarat.
BikeStuff ahhok. Just so you know. I’m watching this to kill the boredom that has been brought on by the rona lol. And also because I’m craving country travel so bad. Adelaide resident here :)
@@timtam20292 You could only be Aussie with a name like that 😎👍
Hey what car did you use to get from Melbourne to Perth
Holden VU
Ok nice 👍
Do a road trip from Perth to Queensland
@@RICKTOMYT i live in melbourne now. eventually ill post the around australia video, its like 135 hours of footage
Mom: Go to sleep, it's 2am.
Kid: just 1 more video before bed.
Video:
Great video very interesting mate
Thanks
What time stamp does he goes insane talking to the camera???
that happens a few times over the 35 hrs. compulsive screaming. random insults at drivers etc.
nice effort mate
I haven’t got my license yet but bloody hell, that’s a long drive, I’ve sat in the back of the car for an 11 hr stint up to Parkes NSW, got stuck at so many bloody freight trains that delayed us by about 3 hrs, didn’t help that we ended up staying in a shit motel for the night.
its all about what you can take mentally. i dont mind the long drives. my mind and thoughts wander. its kinda . good therapy
BikeStuff I like the long drives, as long as I have a leg stretcher every 3 hrs or it just gets a bit too much. I liked that you had no radio, in my opinion it’s better.
@@lv3915 i had no radio because i didnt want to gt like 400 copyright strikes for music
Would you ever drive from Brisbane to Cairns
i would if i was doing a around australia trip. hopefully post lockdown.
How many hours of video in one 32gb card?
about 3hrs 50mins per 32gb card at 1080p 30fps. i had 6 SD cards, and was transferring the video over to the laptop hard drive every day. total was about 400gb
How long did it take you to upload this?
I have the NBN, 312GB video took 18hrs. however thats split over 3 videos because TH-cam wont allow videos over 12 hours or 120gb.
Holy fuck
hey, where abouts in melbourne did you start this trip?
Ballarat. about 90mins west of melb
10:09:20 very foggy day visibility less than 100m
Oh and 11:42:00
The camera made it look thicker then it was. That said, it was still thick fog. Thank for watching
11:16:16 - you hear me open a drink
Can you let me know where to stay overnight? towns/motels(assuming 11-12 hours drive per day)?. cheers!
Hello Daniel, i had a bed setup in the back of the canopy. so i slept at any truck stop where i felt too tired to drive.
@@AridersLifeYT Hi, thanks for reply. Well, that is not an option for me, I will need to fill up my car with my stuff, no space. Any tips of where you reckon I can sleep over (motels/towns).
It depends on where you are driving from and how many days you are planning the trip. id recommend you use google maps to plot the driving route. and book hotels / motels in advance. i cant really give you any advice on motels because i was going to stay in cocklepiddy and they wanted $150 for a room for 1 night so i said no.
@@AridersLifeYT Hi, Just to let you know I made it save and sound all the way from Melbourne to Perth in 3 days. Thanks for vids and tips.
Daniel Davila thats good to hear :-)
from 6.50 to 7.00 which town area is this?
do you mean 6:50 or 06:50:00 ?
@@AridersLifeYT 06.50
Thats the Ballarat Mcarthur park Bypass heading towards outbound,
@@AridersLifeYT thanks...I noticed that you went forwards but came back towards the fuel station at 10.23 ?
What day and time did you leave for the trip?
Hello Dennis, i left at 1pm. I wanted to leave at 6am but a 3rd check on the car i discovered i had major transmission leak. So i spent 5 hours fixing that. I left on a Friday afternoon.
Thanks, you got a video of the Sydney tomelbourne trip?
Hello Dennis, i did but i got Audio copyright claimed and removed. So next time i do the trip again i will do it without music. That might be awhile away tho. Depending if i buy a new van in December.
Abracadabra - Greetings from Vancouver Canada.
I love your country..
Wow man, I just checked how many kilometers your trip is and tried to make an itinerary from my house to a location at +-37h of road.... Damn, Australia is fucking huge ! I'd had to go nearly 8h of road further than Moscow to make the same trip as you ! :o
Australia didn't look that huge in what I remember from my geography class book :D jeeeeez'
lol yeah its size is under-represented for some reason.
floflospeed24 it’s nearly as big as USA
@@AridersLifeYT because of the stupid mercator map that shrinks all countries to the south of the planet and oversizes the northern ones like Europe and north America
@@leob4403 that maps the wrong size anyways.
@@AridersLifeYT yeah it's awful it shows Greenland almost the size of Africa and so forth. I bought a Gall Peters map which has the correct dimensions
i miss going on drives like that
Nice video. Which car ?
Holden VU SS
I'm surprised that the major highways are 2 lane roads. Somehow I expected a 4-6 lane road system.
most major city areas they are 4 lanes. something like 80% live on the coast so the inner deserts etc are not that well structured
Would also cost way too much to add lanes to all the Inland highways, for example, the Stuart highway alone is over 2000km of road that would need to have lanes added. Just not worth the money
Australia has less people than California, and even then, around 99% of its population living in like 2% of land area. The other 98% is simply too empty, almost devoid of settlement, road widening project is unneeded.
@7:03:21 Welcome to typical SA driving.
So true
Excellent!
What time was it when you got to Adelaide
I don't remember
about 3 months ago i drove a 6X6 land rover perentie from melbourne to just south of perth took 5 days driving at 90kph max and no night driving found it somewhat relaxing
That would have consumed a lot of fuel. I too enjoyed the long drive
@@AridersLifeYT was getting around 18L to 100km.
@@peterg1448 yeah thats a drastic increase over my 9L/100
@@AridersLifeYT well its alot better than the 22l per 100 that the spec sheet shows for it :)
The exact point you started from in Melbourne. Where.?
ballarat,
Hey, Great video, I’m afraid TH-cam didn’t let you update a full 30hrs video, how long does is take you to upload this 11hrs?
TH-cam wont let you upload a video longer then 12hrs..Due to the video size, about 130GB for 11hrs it took me about 4hrs to upload 1 video, youtube took about 3 days to render it at 1080P.
I plan to do a 135hr video. thats going to be uploaded in 5hr increments
Is it safe to drive in night time ?
With the amount of wild life on the road. It's risky
@@AridersLifeYT okay. And what the camping area ,, are they safe?
@@bikash8591 it's illegal to camp along the nulla unless in camp only zones.
@@AridersLifeYT thank you for your response
hi , one question , i am going to travel from Melbourne to perth, do i need to apply permission for crossing south australia border also to enter western australia? thank you
It is the Murray River
at what part?
Adelaide SA
Nah, this is Sydney
Wait. You did this in 35 hours???
I did this in 16 days (!!!) and I used to think that was too little time.
I think 35 hours driving time across 3 days. Almost half the time on the road!!
Rip off- this actually starts from the outskirts of Ballarat rather than Melbourne 😂. But seriously, great work.
most welcome.
Where did you leave from?
Ballarat, about 1hr west of melb on the freeway. Basically melbourne
Ballarat is nowhere near melbourne, at least 2 hours from melbourne, well from where i am in melbourne, the northern edge of melbourne. Still a long drive tho.
@@largechips ballarats 1hr west of melbourne man. i timed it the other day from footscray to ballarat
@@AridersLifeYT but still ballarat is another city and you cant really call it melbourne when there are many paddocks separating ballarat from the western fringe of melbourne, its not far but still very different.
Thank you lad!
I did the same thing but from Vic to coral bay in Wa
its a good drive
@@AridersLifeYT Sure is. sitting on 120 on the nullabor was interesting.
On the way back a guy passed me doing 160. He was caught about 1hr from Bordertown. Cop let him go but he still go the fine, so he will have his taken impounded for 30 days and loose his license for 12 months. Lucky the cop was nice, otherwise he is stuck in the middle of nowhere.
@@AridersLifeYT 160 and let off wow must of been a nice cop hahah