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Australia and the Pacific

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Welcome to the Grand Pacific Drive Lets face it, most travellers arrive in Sydney, drool over the harbour bridge and the opera house before heading on up north towards Byron Bay, the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef. The Grand Pacific Drive doesn’t even come onto their radar. I say this with reasonable confidence as in 2008 I joined the legions of travellers adding my footprints to this well trodden path. Heading out on the Grand Pacific Drive With the way our flights, Christmas and car hire plans planned out we landed in Sydney on Jan 1st 2018 and we were flying out to Hobart on Jan 10th. So we had a grand total of 9 days, not a huge amount of time. Especially as one half wanted a couple of days in Sydney. We landed at 10:00am and by 10:45 we were in our bright blue Toyota corolla that we…