Seasoned Big Lap Travellers Share Practical Tips for Travelling Australia Matt, Tanikka and their kids from @kidstravelaus are on their 2nd big lap around Australia. Join them as they share some tips that worked best for them while travelling. Check out some of their favourite camping spots/places and the items that they cannot live without… Have you also completed the Big Lap or are you, first-time travellers? What sort of experiences are you hoping to have once you embark on this journey? Welcome to Aussie Travel Stories, the series where we ask Aussie travellers questions to help inspire and educate the Big Lap community to enjoy the greatest road trip of their lives. Tanikka: Hi Big Lap Bible, Iām Tanikka Matt: Iām Matt Tanikka: Weāre KidsTravelAusĀ Tanikka: Who do we travel with? Matt: Well I travel with her, and her three kids. They are nine, seven, and six Tanikka: Theyāre up here, in here somewhere. Tanikka: Because Iām mwah *finger gestures* Matt: Someone had a few too many drinks Tanikka: We. Matt: We hehe, and we decided letās travel Australia. Tanikka: Yeah, thatās what happened, and then we did Matt: Didnāt really believe it, wake up in the morn to someone researching caravans and then a month laterĀ Tanikka: We had a caravan RELATED: Buy Your Big Lap Bible Here Tanikka: We are in Karratha. Weāve been here for a while weāve been here sitting and working upping our funds because we work and travel and we are leaving Karratha in two days Tanikka: We have a Belmont, a bug van, we upgraded though, we didnāt start off with a Belmont or a 200 series. We started off with an Expander and a 100 series that broke down 400 billion times on the way. Thatās okay we made it. Matt: Part of the journey. Tanikka: Both, we say both here yeah? Matt: Yeah generally stay at both Tanikka: You meet different people at both and itās cool Tanikka: I donāt know, I like Perlubie, itās not a free camp, I think itās 10 dollars, donation? It was beautiful. That was down in South Australia Matt: Honesty Box? Tanikka: Everywhere, 40 miles nice and WA. Everywhere is different and everywhere is nice Matt: A lot of the beach camps we like Tanikka: Yeah beach camps 100%. Anywhere on the coast. Tanikka: No, no way. Every experience is different eh? You might have a shit time there, you might have a shit time one time and then itāll be good next time Matt: We havenāt seen everywhere to say thereās a bad spot. Tanikka: Yeah thatās true. Related: Get 100s of Discounts for your Big Lap with Our Livin’ Barry platform Tanikka: I canāt wait to go to Rottnest, we havenāt done Rottnest Island yeah? I want to get a selfie with the quokkas. On my page, youāll know how much I love a good selfie, especially family selfies. With a quokka involved, youāre doing alright. Tanikka: No. No pets. Tanikka: Oh well Matt wins this one. Mattās scared of dingos, dogs, and anything dog-related. Only when theyāre not our dogs or dogs he know. And Iāll just take the piss out of him every single time because itās funny. If he fills that with petrol and weāre in the NT Iām like āOoh thereās a dingo over thereā, and he would jump in the car that quick. Matt: Your wine glass. Tanikka: Thatās right, thatās right. And the Yetis. The Yeti one, the Yeti wine glass, any Yeti item. Yeti wine glass, Yeti beer cooler, Yeti water bottle, the Yetis. Matt: And the barbeque, broth of the beast. Get your YETI products here Tanikka: First time we didnāt really fund it. We kind of just scraped the barrel. Matt: We saved a little bit, and then we ran low and we started working and made a bit of coin, kick out the next spot. Tanikka: Stop and work, stop and work, stop and work. Weāre on our second lap now so itās working. Tanikka: Our biggest expense, I reckon, easily will be food and nowadays, fuel 100% and it will be everything all in. Matt: Oh I never knew how to change a caravan door handle. Tanikka: Oh yeah weāve gone through a few of those. Matt: About a dozen of those.Ā Tanikka: And I reckon also, how easy it is. Travellingās not that hard, itās pretty easy. Matt: You just jump in and go off. Tanikka: Getting in and taking off. If youāre not happy somewhere, youāre not feeling it. Matt: Off to the next spot. Tanikka: Freedom. Letās go! Tanikka: I said Yetis but you said thatās not a splurge, is that what you said? Thatās a splurge because theyāre not a necessity. What else is a big splurge? I guess the experiences, like whale shark experiences, going to islands are not a necessity but it is a splurge but I think itās so cool Matt: Yeah itās a part of travelling. You got to splurge out and do it. Tanikka: Weāve just like, weāve missed it. And only if you can, there are so many other ways to experience things. Matt: Especially if youāre from the east coast, youāre going through Queensland youāre always splurging on theme parks. Tanikka: Yeah thatās actually a good point Tanikka: Heaps. Iām going to start off with Tupperware… ladies, you donāt need it. It takes up so much room. Matt: You donāt need six pots and pans. Tanikka: You need some of it, some of it I canāt let go off, but you donāt need old Tupperware. Especially the bottles. I replaced the bottles with Yetis. Matt: Bowls and cups coming in there. Tanikka: Oh the bowls. Yeah, the bowls and plates are good, and the cups. Tanikka: We werenāt really affected by it. We had somewhere to stay and we were locked down.Ā Matt: I worked all lockdown. Tanikka: Yeah he did and it was all good for us. Matt: Just do it. Tanikka: Yeah just get out there and do it. What do you get to lose? What do you actually have to lose? If something goes bad itās just going to become a funny story later on. Keep on keeping on. See you guys. Want to share your Big Lap travel story? Would you like to share Practical Tips for Travelling Australia? Connect with us throughĀ Instagram,Ā Facebook,Ā andĀ TikTokĀ What’s Your Travel Story?
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