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Many thanks to the travellers who used the last edition and wrote to us with helpful hints, useful advice and interesting anecdotes:
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Author Thanks
Charles Rawlings-Way
Huge thanks to Tasmin for the gig, and to our crew of highway-addled co-authors. Thanks also to the all-star in-house LP production staff, and the friends who helped us out (or held our hands) on the road: Christian, Lauren, Rachel, Brett and all the kids in Brisbane; Mark, Cath, Fred, Lucy and the kids in Hobart; Georgie, Luke and the kids on KI (kids everywhere!); and Helen in Launceston. Special thanks as always to Meg, my road-trippin’ sweetheart, and our daughters Ione and Remy who provided countless laughs, unscheduled pit-stops and ground-level perspectives along the way.
Meg Worby
A big thank you to Tasmin. Kudos to the in-house team at Lonely Planet for turning many weeks of exploration into this most reliable of handheld devices. Huge thanks to all our interstate friends for great company and insider tips. Love to the small and unflappable travellers, Ione and Remy, who saw snow for the first time on this trip. Thank you, as ever, to Charles: a pro.
Kate Armstrong
Thanks to Tasmin Waby for the opportunity to explore and write about my own country; in Broome, Robyn Maher, Liz Jack and the Chomley family; Neville Poelina for sharing his traditional and age-old wisdom; fellow authors Brett Atkinson and Steve Waters (WA). In Queensland: Jon and Chris Bowie for their early morning swim meets, laugh and Noosa goss; Susan Ewington and Emily Comer; Mary and Ron for a genuine local take.
Brett Atkinson
Thanks to the helpful folk at visitor information centres and national parks offices throughout WA, NSW and Canberra. Special thanks to Jayde and Michelle in Perth, and ahoj and děkuji to Greg and Francie in Mathoura for the coffee and scones after an 'interesting' morning. At LP, cheers to Tasmin Waby, my fellow scribes, and the hardworking editors and cartographers. Final thanks to Carol for holding the fort across the ditch in New Zealand so we could escape to Burma.
Carolyn Bain
Big thanks to Tasmin Waby for the fun gig, Nick Smales for sorting out a decent car for me, and all the warm friendly locals who answered my questions and entertained me with stories. Much gratitude to octogenarian ex-miners in Broken Hill up for a yarn, to Lightning Ridge opal miners up for a yarn, and to chatty winemakers, museum volunteers and fellow travellers all over the state - You make this job a joy.
Celeste Brash
Thanks mostly to my husband and kids for supporting my crazy job. In Australia, big thanks to Tamara Sheward and family, Shawn Low, all the good folks at visitors centres along the coast, Peter and Eileen in Rubyvale, Whitsunday Bookings, koalas, wallabies, platypus and all the unwitting travellers who became my spies. Special thanks to Tasmin Waby for sending me to OZ and for all the encouragement along the way.
Peter Dragicevich
I owe a great debt of thanks to all my Sydney support crew, particularly David Mills, Barry Sawtell, Tony Dragicevich, Debbie Debono, Tim Moyes and Michael Woodhouse. Thanks for sacrificing your stomachs and livers so enthusiastically for this book.
Anthony Ham
Heartfelt thanks to Tasmin Waby and to countless locals who shared their passion and expertise for this wonderful corner of the earth. To Marina, Carlota and Valentina – os quiero.
Paul Harding
Thanks to all the travellers and Queenslanders who, perhaps unknowingly, helped along the way. Thanks to Tasmin Waby for getting me on board and to all the team at LP. But mostly, thanks to Hannah and Layla for everything.
Alan Murphy
I would like to dedicate my work on this book to Maggie. There were so many people who helped with research on this update, a huge thanks to all I met on the road. A special thanks goes to Andy and Ellie in Darwin for their tips on the city and their hospitality. Lastly, thanks to my wife Alison, who is my strength and my home.
Miriam Raphael
Thank you Tasmin Waby for getting in touch, Di Schallmeiner and Lauren Wellicome for your insanely quick responses to my Christo crises (real and imagined), and the editing team for their flexibility around the birth of baby-Raph. Cheers to all the north coast locals who so happily shared their secrets. A huge thanks to Ken’s red pen (let that ink never run out) and my wing-peeps Marcel and Pearl.
Benedict Walker
A massive shout out to Tasmin Waby for giving me a chance, for my Mum and travel buddy who never stops believing in me, my beloved wife-of-sorts, Sarah Sabell, for keeping me smiling on the road - as well as the ever-amazing Katie Avis, to Olivia at Leah Jay and my mystery landlord for helping me find the perfect writer’s pad (let me stay forever!), to Rog at Punsand Bay for being the best 4WD tour guide anyone could hope for, to the Walkers and the Cowies for always putting me up and putting up with me and to Lonely Planet for truly allowing me to live my dreams as a traveller and writer: we live on an amazing planet. Thanks also to my Facebook friends for spurring me on and to all the amazing Queensladers I met along the way. Buckets of gratitude all round!
Steve Waters
Thanks to the hire-car folks at Broome airport, the CP people for the late-checkout in Exmouth, the tyre repair guys at Drysdale & Paraburdoo, Leonie & Nev for beer and sunsets, Trace & Heath, Brodie, Abbidene, Meika & Kaeghan for Wedge Love, Honest Ed's Steak & Car Cleaning Service, Roz & Megan for caretaking, Hamish for putting up with the same playlist forever and Seb & Tasmin for guiding me through the twittersphere.
Acknowledgements
Climate map data adapted from Peel MC, Finlayson BL & McMahon TA (2007) ‘Updated World Map of the Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification’, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 11, 1633–44.
Cover photograph: Hikers on the base walk at Uluru (Ayers Rock), Andrew Watson/AWL.
Museum of Old & New Art image courtesy of MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart,Tasmania, Australia.
This Book
Destination Editor Tasmin Waby
Product Editors Kate Chapman, Katie O’Connell
Senior Cartographer Julie Sheridan
Book Designer Wibowo Rusli
Assisting Editors Andrew Bain, Judith Bamber, Imogen Bannister, Michelle Bennett,Sarah Billington, Melanie Dankel, Kate Evans, Kate James,Jodie Martire, Anne Mulvaney, Jenna Myers, Lauren O’Connell, Charlotte Orr, Susan Paterson, Martine Power, Victoria Smith
Cartographers Hunor Csutoros, Rachel Imeson
Cover Researcher Naomi Parker
Thanks to Carolyn Boicos, Jo Cooke, Mark Griffiths,Anna Harris, Kate Kiely, Anne Mason, Kate Mathews, Claire Naylor, Karyn Noble, Diana Saengkham, Dianne Schallmeiner, Ellie Simpson, Angela Tinson, Samantha Tyson, Lauren Wellicome, Amanda Williamson
Ebook thanks to Andrew Bigger, Ruth Cosgrove, Julie Dodkins, Liz Heynes, Craig Kilburn, Chris Love, Wayne Murphy, Jacqui Saunders, John Taufa, Glenn van der Knijff, Juan Winata.