#wtrip09 Quick Facts and Figures
Been home a week now and busy sorting out KML/GPX Files, dealing with photos and putting all the camping gear away.
So here are some of the facts and figures from the trip 🙂
- Minimum distance planned for the trip: 4,203 km
- Total distance (that is door to door): 5025KM
- Total Cost of Petrol: $623.24
- Total Litres: 491.17
- KM/Per Litre: 10.23
- Most Expensive: 138.9 BP Cunummulla
- Tweets where I wrote in the Lat/Long: 48
Photos: 5000+ (including family Xmas day ones)- Percentage of Photos Geotagged to within 20Meters: 95
- Hardware Failures: 1 320 WD HD Drive… Rooted when we stopped in Canberra (MBR error)
- Roadkill: 1 Bird (countless insects)
- Near Miss: 1 Emu (missed by 30 cm or so)
- Total Distance of Video for the trip: Approx 3300km (will try and rescue another 500km of video yet)
- Total Distance Recorded as GPX files: 5000km (only one Nokia GPS fail on a small side trip)
- Number of Twitter followers meet IRL for the first time (Not including a dog): 4
- Number of Bolt of lighting seen: 4 (number missed because storms hit the day after I left 30K+!)
- Number of States/Territories Driven in: 4
- Damage to the Car: 1 Stone Chip to windscreen (Location Dual Carriage way just outside Taree of all places!), 1 blown rear power outlet.
- Most Easterly Point: -28.636305°, 153.637817° (Cape Byron Light House)
- Most Northerly Point: -26.397385°, 147.176207°
- Highest Point: 850M -35.275425°, 149.097745° (Black Mountain Telstra Tower)
- Lowest Point: 0 Meters (Surfers Paradise + Norah Head and other beaches)
- Longest Distance Between traffic lights (not inc side trips): 1800km (from -35.836815°, 144.907532° which were roadworks in NSW to Dalby in QLD)
I will put together the driving videos and the KML files when I have finished cleaning them up. Most of the KML files are a lot larger than they need to be as I would leave the N95 running whilst I stopped to take photos and wandered around.
The rest of images I uploaded to Flickr are in my #Wtrip09 Set
