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@NTA Yes, I'm sure the people trapped in or out of their homes in the Cairns area are waiting on tenterhooks to see where you book instead.
Cheers. My intent was not to sound like a heartless prick, of course.
However, I feel the need to explain that we've had a fluffybunny of a year, and we were just looking forward to a holiday without any stress.
I didn't particularly want to go sweat my fat arse off in Cairns in the middle of summer, but my wife wanted it after tossing around a few options. The risk of tropical storms and cyclones comes with the territory up there, I pointed out as part of our thinking at the time.
Given she'd recently buried both her parents in the space of 10 weeks - one after a 6-year battle with dementia that we all got to watch like a slowmo car crash - I was disinclined to refuse her at that point.
So while thankful for your reminder of the plight of the people suffering in FNQ, feel free to coat it in oil and shove it up your arse.
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@mariner4life said in Travel:
Yeah. Real fucking cool.
Again - not trying to be a heartless prick - that is a very good resource for disaster management.
Bringing together multiple sources to give people as much information as they can, particularly if they're unfamiliar with the area, is a very good way to help prevent more loss.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
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@Tim Can't remember right now, after Kawakawa I think, as that was where a dog going nuts bolting all over the road had caused someone to smash into a median barrier.
The truck just looked to have taken a downhill bend too fast and rocked off the inside verge before rocketing across the other side.
Third one was weird, long straight just before Kaeo I think, someone had just stopped in the middle of the road a hundred metres before the road works lights and was being attended to by a sole ambulance.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
The country is absolutely full of roadworks. Absolutely everywhere. It’s bloody annoying.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
The country is absolutely full of roadworks. Absolutely everywhere. It’s bloody annoying.
And all the other bits are filled with potholes
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@mariner4life said in Travel:
@MajorRage said in Travel:
@canefan I’m in Paihia. So it’s 2:40 each way.
I’m really torn. I’ve dropped 1k gbp on stupid things before and that’s what this is ….
Just don’t want it be a complete lemon ….
It's a long drive. The reason why I've not done it with my kids yet
Pfft hahaha
It's all relative muthafucka 😉. Quite a drive to go from Paihia to CR, look around, then come back. We considered staying in Kaitaia overnight. I heard it's a bit of a hole
That’s a polite way to describe it! I’m from a wee bit north of there and whilst I haven’t been up for a couple of years, I doubt anything has changed.
I’d personally bite the bullet and do the day drive mission if you are just looking to go there and back. But there are some sweet sights along the way without the need for much of a detour. Cable bay, coopers beach, cape Karikari, 90 mile beach, mongonui etc. All have varying levels of accommodation but if you are already booked in Paihia it’s probably a bit to headache to try and do that.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
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@booboo hadn't really thought about it, I'm used to South London and Kent overflowing and narrow, higgledy-piggledy, narrow roads and lanes anyway - either that or boring as fuck motorways.
I hate the stretch of road on the M25 from ours to Heathrow so much, we caught the train this time around and I lugged the heavy suitcases, it's probably quicker anyway.
Plus the roads genuinely seem in at least as good, if not better condition, no major thuds on the drive yesterday. I generally can't drive anywhere in the UK without hitting a road with defects that will demolish a wheel if you don't see them. My view in the UK might be slightly coloured though as my company is involved in government asset management...
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
Hah i can imagine NZ is quite different in this regards. We have lots of hills / mini mountains and at times a rather narrow bit of land to work with. Those reduced speed advisory's are there for a reason but you are normally all good for 10-15km over the signed amount.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
Is it the grumpy old man in me kicking in or are there genuinely far more roadworks these days than in the past ?
I’m driving to Hawkes Bay on the 23rd and getting angry in advance.
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Geez, 3 traffic incidents on the way up to Kaitaia from Auckland, including an upside down work truck in a ditch that must have happened mere minutes before we came round the bend. Emergency services are certainly quick to respond up here. Drive safe folks
How you finding the NZ roads?
Genuine question.
Not so much the surfacing but the geometry?
The NZ domiciled Ferners will tell you the roads are full of potholes and falling apart, but my recollection of recentish trips is the random sharp bends with really reduced advisory speeds after travelling at 100kmph for some distance.
And the narrower road widths.
After travelling in Aus where they don't have real hills it came as a bit of a shock
As I live in NSW I always find the roads a breeze when I'm in NZ. Much less bumpy. TBF I feel the same way when crossing over the border into Queensland.
