Yeah, I remember flying off to Europe from Sydney. First leg was like 14 hours or something, stopping in Qatar, but the first 7 or so was just clearing Oz, going NW. You see the plane finally exit the west coastline to the Indian Ocean and you realise you’re halfway to the middle east. It’s huge and such a tiny population.
Going further south, to Red Rocks or even to Island Bay, makes the cape 14 hrs away. Basically the longest trip on “nice” roads in the North Island. Could make it 14 1/2 hrs if you take it to Cape Palliser; but that is basically the limit in NZ.
I drove with a friend 13 hours across Oz to the coast; looked at map was a tiny little bit of the bottom part…FFS Oz is huge.
Drive 13hrs in NZ and you would go from Wellington to somewhere in Northland; or the whole length of the South Island.
Yeah, I remember flying off to Europe from Sydney. First leg was like 14 hours or something, stopping in Qatar, but the first 7 or so was just clearing Oz, going NW. You see the plane finally exit the west coastline to the Indian Ocean and you realise you’re halfway to the middle east. It’s huge and such a tiny population.
13 hours would get you from the Wellington CBD to Cape Reinga, which is as far north as you can get on public roads. 8 would get you past Auckland.
Indeed.
Going further south, to Red Rocks or even to Island Bay, makes the cape 14 hrs away. Basically the longest trip on “nice” roads in the North Island. Could make it 14 1/2 hrs if you take it to Cape Palliser; but that is basically the limit in NZ.
I’ll say it again, FFS Oz is huge.