Perth To Sydney Ultimate Coast To Coast Road Trip - Britz

Thirteen nights and 4,165 kilometres from Perth to Sydney in a campervan, which is the full width of the continent.

Northam and Kalgoorlie come first, the gold town where the Super Pit is a hole several kilometres long and deep enough to be visible from orbit, then Fraser Range and Cocklebiddy on the Eyre Highway, which includes the longest stretch of dead straight road in Australia at ninety miles.

The Nullarbor follows, a limestone plain with virtually no trees on it, where the road runs along the Bunda Cliffs above the Southern Ocean and whales calve offshore in winter. Fowlers Bay and Ceduna mark the eastern end of it, then Port Augusta and Adelaide, and the Murray towns at Renmark and Mildura. Wagga Wagga, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains close the route into Sydney.

Britz supply the camper and the day-by-day plan, and the hire is priced live per vehicle rather than per person; campsites, fuel, ferries, park fees and activities are all extra, with a nil-excess insurance pack available at booking. Fourteen days for 4,165 kilometres means around three hundred a day, which is manageable but leaves little slack, and a one-way hire of this kind usually carries a relocation fee worth checking at booking. Fuel stops across the Nullarbor are a couple of hundred kilometres apart and the prices there reflect it. Fourteen nights also means this is a crossing rather than a holiday: the point is the scale of the country, and nothing else in the Britz range conveys it quite so directly.