Thanks for all the ideas so far. The number of days we take might come down to how well the boy handles long hours in a baby-seat. As Rob was saying kids are all different and although he's done several 2hour trips to Perth with no problem we won't know how he goes on the longer trip until we're there.
At this stage we're thinking that we might leave Friday arvo instead of Saturday morning and head to Esperance, stay a day there since I've heard it's nice and we'll work out based on how things go on that first bit whether we should push through for a quick trip from there or break it up into an extra day or two.
Not going via Kal/Coolgardie since we're 200km south of Perth we'll take the south coast route.
so maybe Bunbury to Esperance, Esperance to Norseman (2 hour trip in the arvo), Norseman to Ceduna (leave early - long day), and Ceduna to Adelaide.
2.5 hour daylight saving time difference when we cross the border gets in the way too...
Other thing is that I believe the law requires the baby seat to be rear-facing until kids are 6 months old - he'll be a week off 6 months (and is large for his age anyway), so I reckon we should be allowed to just work out whether he travels better with it facing front or rear and just go with that but dunno how strict they are on the 6 months thing if we were unfortunate enough to get involved in an accident or something.
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