.........JULY/AUGUST.........................AUSTRALIA...........WEATHER CHECK...........

[RTKangaMummy]

For all the Aussie mums

Please help

MELBOURNE

SYDNEY

ULURU

CAIRNS

PERTH

Clothes required please

I know MEL & SYD will be cold

How much rain?????????

Are we mad?????

We have been before in March/April and also in January

Bumping for them when the get up

well i've been up for 2 hours,

firstly why do you think you may be mad? I don't get it

Perth will be high teens to low twenties max, but chilly at night and in the early morning. YOu will need a light jacket and one woolie or light non furry fleece. There will be rain but it will be like a March day in England at the very very worst.

Dunno about hte others

another stinking hot 37 degrees today though

it won't rain for more than 2 or 3 days in a row, and if it does that there'll be a public enquiry

I meant mad for swapping our summer for winter

Thanks for the tips SW

SO no swimming then

Do the boats still go over to Rotnest in July/August?

As DS hasn't seen the Quokkas{sp}

Do the TOURIST places stay open during July/August?

Cairns will still be hot. Check out the govt weather website - has monthly averages etc

\link{http://www.bom.gov.au/\Bureau of Meteorology}

Horrah!

BOM, a permanent bookmark in my browser

Yes you will be able to enchant dd with the quokkas, we haven't been yet - really must get round to it. Everthing is open to the tourists I think,

(DH has taken ds1 to Port Beach this morning, do you remember the beach just north of Freo)

ULURU - warm during day - bloody cold at night.

Cairns - pleasant and it will be dry season - so no fear of cyclones or anything like that. Best time to go actually.

Sydney will be chilly but the days tend to be bright and sunny

Yes Melbourne will be cold but always beautiful. Are you interested in skiing? July August best months and Falls Creek and Mt Hotham both fabulous for families. The plus is very few tourists about!

Thanks guys

We are going to SYD to visit friends who have returned to SYD after living in UK

And MEL is to visit with my birth dad {I was adopted as a baby ~ he is an Aussie}

I have been looking at brochures today and am rather taken with WHitsunday Islands.

DH is thinking about DARWIN too as we haven't been there before

Is it worth it?

Why? what is there?

Which is best airline for internal travel ~ quantas or virgin blue?

We went with quantas the 1st time and singapore airlines last time

we will deffo be flying with singapore airlines over there

But which would you use for internals????????

Thank you guys

No sorry SW I don't remember it?

Are the jellyfish going to be in river in august?

No we won't be skiing

ooooooooooooooooops sorry DH says the internal flights were with

ANSAT or ANNSETT

But that was in 1994 so a long tome ago

just go with the cheapest for internal flights, not a vast deal of difference between them

jellyfish in the river all year round, but harmless, ds1 pokes them with sticks and ds2 flings them

Thanks

I asked cos DS would be facinated to see them all

The river was full of them when we there before but as that was at Easter didn't know if it was seasonal

Do you have any recomendations to ask the travel agent to look out for, please

recommendations of what?

ansett no longer in operation - you can choose virgin blue/qanta or jet star.... try booking them online might be easier and cheaper. We did that when we travelled from UK to Aus - we booked out internal flights with virgin blue online - flew brissy to syd.

Whitsundays is fab - but if you are going to Carins can see the reef etc whilst there as well as rainforest....

box jelly fish are not as prevalent during winter...

Accommodation can also be booked on line - if you want to cut out travel agent...

We have found \link{http://www.flightcentre.com.au\this site} to be good for getting the cheapest flights etc. You get to compare all the cheap flights together and so you can do Virgin Blue out and Jetstar back for example. We just got a really good deal on hire cars for Sydney next month. HTH

Thanks guys

SW I meant recommendations for airlines for internal flights

Because of all the problems with Virgin when we went to California last year, I want to use a travel agent so they can be responsible for all the problems

We have quite a good independant one in the town that organized our "round the world" trip in 2002

So they can have all the hassle and all the time I was spending on the phone to call centres etc.

We are getting very excited about returning to Australia

flight centre as linked by hannahs aunt are fab - they have organised so much for us both in the Uk and here in Aus.

Branches of The Flight Centre over hear have a life size statue of a pilot outside who looks like Princess Anne's husband

Gives me the heebiejeebies

RTKM... we'll be there at the same time.

Have you got confirmed dates?

we fly into Mel on 25th July, spend a week there, then fly to Cairns and spend two weeks there and driving down toward Sydney. We'll probably fly from Brisbane to Sydney on 18th June for a week before we fly to China.

Let me know where you'll be - you've been a fantastic support on my RTW thread and would love to meetup.

Oh - I have done quite a lot of checking into flights - Jet Star and Virgin Blue seem like the way to go.

Does anybody know if it's possible to fly from Melbourne to Uluru to Cairns.

ahem, dejags
I notice that Perth is not on your list of destinations. Surely some mistake?