Event Coverage Australia Trip with Pics!

All work no play make for a dull day or something like that . Lol

 

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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

 

Most don’t realise - Almost as big as the USA in area…………
Australia…….7,682,300 km sq
U.S.A………..9,147,593 km sq (3,531,905 miles sq)
I suspect that Alaska is not included.


How Big is the United States compared to Australia?

 

In the map overlay above, if one of the countries was flipped upside down, I think the similarity in size would be alot more apparent...

 

The old saying, We have Stations(farms) as big as Texas is not far from the truth.
Some friends have just been over from NZ and every time they’d ask how far somewhere was, the answer was nearly always ,”just down the road”, they never knew if that was 5 mins or 5 hrs, all relative here.

 

And if you made them both rectangles the similarity would be more apparent too.

 

Your suspicion is not correct. The land area of the contiguous united states is 8,080,464 km sq, only 5% larger than Australia. Hawaii and Alaska were originally included and are 13% of the land area of the USA.

 

Nah, that includes Alaska and Hawaii. According to Wiki, the contiguous states are only 8,080,464.3 km sq., and only 7,663,941.7 km sq is actual land. Pretty close in size to Australia.

Anna Creek Station is the largest, at 23,677 km sq. Texas is 696,000 km sq. Things really are larger in Texas .

Cheers,
Harv

 

First search result that came up,
But yes from looking it up a while back I thought the difference was less than 5%.
But I always thought Alaska was extra and also much bigger.
Thanks for the correction.

 

Anna Creek Station is the largest, at 23,677 km sq. Texas is 696,000 km sq. Things really are larger in Texas .

Cheers,
Harv[/QUOTE]

Geez Harv, you just pricked my bubble,,we drove in through Lubbock, down to Austin and out via the north west, it didn’t seem that big.

 

another saying out west is "how far to the next petrol ?"
answer "a six pack" (beer)

 

My favourite when I lived in Sydney was the Hero of Waterloo Hotel in the Rocks.

 

I spent plenty of time there as well.

 

Made it to Canberra and am staying with a mate there that I met several years ago in the states. Sounds like a garage crawl and bbq tomorrow before heading to Sydney.

 

Envious!!!

Ben

 

I didn’t realize you were in Brisbane. For some reason I was thinking you were from NZ when I met you at the StratKat 500 in Dewey a few years back.

Understood Ben. This trip is not something I would have thought I would ever have opportunity to do at all much less being able to do some car stuff while here. It’s been a trip of a lifetime.

 

The US may be a little bigger but they have more animals that can kill you. And more weird ones too, like a platypus.

 

My first trip to the US in 2005 we went to a hotrod shop in Bakersfield. The shop guys said to meet them at this bar that night which we did. They asked what did I drink and I said what ever you drink I'll have. So Bud Lite it was and I put a heap away but the next day I had a massive hangover. I told them later that day and they said yeah we drank a heap and I replied yeah but it was only low alcohol beer. They just looked at me and I at them. Well thats the difference between you and us,your lite beer is full strength but light on carbohydrates, our lite beer is low on alcohol like 2.2 percent. hahahaha it was a good night though.

 

Great pictures Jeff, thanks for sharing.
There certainly are some outstanding rides down there, very impressive.
See ya in May....

 

It sounds like you might a need week's vacation to recover from this "vacation" . . !

 

King Ranch in Texas is 3338.65 square kilometers. So yeah, your Anna Creek Station is a sizeable piece of property.

 

I was going to ask if you were at Stray Kat in 2018 when I took the Hudson over. Yes I live in Brisbane and Sydney was just a few years in my youth. I had a friend with me at Stray Kat who was from New Zealand.I had my roadster at Yamba.

 

We are all enjoying the heck out of our trip here Jeff !
Thanks for bringing us along !!

 

Had an amazing day in Canberra today on a garage crawl, bbq lunch, and cruise. Pics to come soon!

 

I can’t believe I missed your roadster at Yamba! That is one cool car!!! I would definitely have taken a pic if I would have seen it.

 

Forgot to post a pic of all the wild kangaroos I saw when I was walking around near the river in Perth Friday morning. They seemed pretty tame even though I was right up next to them.

 

And, now I can post pics from today in Canberra. First pics are the cars owned by my mate that I stayed with and that organized the day for me. He had the 56 Chevy that he has had since he was 17 stashed away in the corner under a cover, then three Model A’s, the touring, an A400 that he is working on, and a glass roadster that someone before him put a somewhat strange roof on. Anyway, the touring was my ride for the day and is way cool.



This cool Model A Vicky is my mates dad’s car.

 

We stopped by a couple of my mates club members houses to check out their projects but I can’t really post many pics since that stuff was all somewhat OT for here. Here are the ones I can post along with some of the car club folks that also came along for the garage crawl and some driving pics.

 

Next stop was a bbq lunch and checking out more cool stuff. Al had a couple way cool 32’s!



Oh, and a pic to show @da34guy that I got to meet Al and go to his place.