Getting to Australia from overseas cheaply and not by air?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 8 Aug, 2023
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OK, so my friend – Kylie Phaup-Stephens, has a blog on bugbitten. Over the period of 20 months from ANZAC Day(25th of April) 2009 to the end of 2010, she cycled from London, UK to Christchurch, NZ.
Naturally, she had to use water methods at some point.
She struggled for a while to find a boat to Aus – and a visa (a legacy law means that even Kiwis need a visa for Australia if arriving by sea!). However, here is her blog entry on that part of the trip. She used FindACrew and other such sites, as well as asking around ports for yachts travelling from Indonesia across to Thursday Island.
Then she continued around Aus for a bit, before catching a cargo ship to NZ. Here’s her blog entry on that part of the trip.
Finally, on TVNZ’s Closeup show last night they interviewed Graham Hughes, who set the record for the most countries in one year (130) without flying. He also can’t use private transport. He ended the interview strolling along Auckland’s harbour, asking boats if they were going to Australia or towards Nauru. So it certainly seems to work (see his website for more details).
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