Gray Nomad,  gray with an a for active seniors lifestyle.
 
The migration of gray nomads heading from colder winter climates towards the sunshine and warm winters of the tropics, happens around the globe and especially here in Australia.  
Some understanding of the roads and service available is needed before choosing your route.

In Australian, it is common for the senior mobile, residents of Perth and southern WA to tour the north west coast to Broome, creating a congestion of tourists there and a serious shortage of accommodation for a short time, midyear. In Western Australia, once you leave the south of the state, there are good bases for automotive products and vehicle servicing at Karratha, Geraldton, Broome, Derby and Kununurra. There are long distances where no service is available and an accomodation and caravan park shortage, so it is important to tour the west with a vehicle in top condition and self sufficient.


When touring north through the center of Australia, via the Stuart Highway, there are excellent service centres, for automotive products at Port Augusta,  Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine then Darwin in the North.  Remember there can be distances of 800 kilometres between service centres on these trips.

The safest trip if you are not confident of touring long distances  away from mechanics, vehicle  service centres for  automotive products, is to stick to the heavily populated south east of Australia, you are very safe, touring the coast, from Adelaide all the way around to Port Douglas in the North, knowing roadside service is easily accessed.

Reg and I love touring ‘outback’, well outside of the roadside service access area and we strive to stay on roads that are travelled daily by truck drivers, carry a lot of water, and have a powerful 4 wheel drive vehicle and some funds on us to ‘tip’, any truck driver who might have to assist us in an emergency.

The photos are of Port Douglas, about as far north as the average gray nomad, tows their caravan on the east coast of Australia.

 
 


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