Travel Tips

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well...it WAS a lake 2 years ago!

You know you're in the middle of nowhere when..

%c*... a billboard announces "Last McDonalds 100 km" (or more)

......You ask for directions to a particular landmark or place and are told it's 'just around the corner'. 10 km later down the road, you finally find it.

...You ask where you are and discover it has no name.

.....the landscape looks all the same and hasn't changed in 500 km (ie in N.T, SA, WA.)

....when in getting from town A to town B in a day you manage to easily listen to all the music in your 10 CD stacker.

...there's only one road and you're on it...for hundreds of kms.

....if you don't fill up with petrol NOW, you won't find another stop for 500 km, by which time it will be too late...

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Give Way

And now, some road signs

This one's self explanatory, but just to show you what colour/shape it is.
STOP is more hexagonal, and almost totally red.

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Speed limits

Speed signs with red rings and white backgrounds are compulsory limits; go more than 3 kms over this, and you will be fined if caught on radar (most likely to happen within cities).
If the speed indicator sign has a yellow background, then it is not compulsory, just a guide (as on winding roads or curves) and you then just have to stick around the figure given, and faster than the last seen compulsory limit.

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Parking

Parking indication signs

An example of a parking sign.
The first number will always refer to the number of hours you can park.
Make sure to observe the times below too (as some only allow parking between certain hours, and may have an "S" with a line through it for 'no standing' at other times.)

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(blow up the sign)

Tasmania has a lot of Greenies....obviously some of them got to this sign.

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Ka-boom!!

Not exactly a road sign....but it could be.
You'll need to blow it up (hehe literally?)
Just another example of Aussie humour in the face of danger....

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sign found at the docks at Townsville

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And a street sign found in the village of Kuranda, far north Queensland (a state where Aussie humour is often very evident)