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Sydney–Broome Loop
🛫Multi-modal: 1 rail + 14 drive days
Big, dusty, beachy Australia: a drive-only Sydney → Broome → Sydney loop with swimming holes, red dirt, coastal camps, and enough breaks that you’re not doing monster 1,000 km days.
✅ Current month (May) is in this region's prime season. Great Ocean Road / Sydney: shoulder seasons mild & dry. Dec-Feb hot & bushfire risk inland.
15days
59stops
4550 drive km
1rail
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1
Sydney to the Blue Mountains
4 stops · 2h · 120km
2
Blue Mountains to Dubbo
4 stops · 4h · 320km
3
Dubbo to Lightning Ridge
4 stops · 4h 30m · 360km
4
Lightning Ridge to Roma
4 stops · 5h 15m · 450km
5
Roma to Carnarvon Gorge
4 stops · 3h 30m · 250km
6
Carnarvon Gorge to Emerald
4 stops · 3h 30m · 250km
7
Emerald to Charters Towers
4 stops · 5h 45m · 480km
8
Charters Towers to Townsville
4 stops · 2h · 140km
9
Townsville to Airlie Beach
4 stops · 2m · 1km
10
Whitsundays slow day
3 stops · 2m · 1km
11
Airlie Beach to Mackay
4 stops · 2h 14m · 176km
12
Mackay to Longreach
4 stops · 46h 29m · 4276km
13
Longreach to Winton
4 stops · 2h 18m · 205km
14
Winton to Mount Isa
4 stops · 5h 48m · 510km
15
Mount Isa to Barkly Homestead
4 stops · 3h 3m · 233km