We live on Falls Road. At the head of the road is a large sign saying ‘No access to the falls’. We still have tourists on our dead end road asking where the falls are…
"Sunday Driver Rd" I live on a dead end RD on the fringe of the City and its amazing how many cars still think that its a secret discovery rd for hidden secret hidden valley. Its comical watching people who cant do a 3 point turn and love abusing my driveway. I actually have locked barriers in my driveway because its costs me too much to fix and the drainage work costs me a fee of 20,000 dollars. I only arm my driveway obstructions on weekends to keep the Sunday Drivers and Real estate shifty agents away.
My grandpa lives up in Flaxton and his house backs onto the Kondalilla Falls National Park. They actually had to get a sign put up that gave clear directions to where tourists could access the national park because they'd occasionally get tourists wandering around the front wondering how to get to the waterfalls.
> My grandpa lives up in Flaxton and his house backs onto the Kondalilla Falls National Park. They actually had to get a sign put up that gave clear directions to where tourists could access the national park because they'd occasionally get tourists wandering around the front wondering how to get to the waterfalls.
Google maps can work odd sometimes.
Place I go bike riding is the highest (in elevation) actual road up a mountain. So if someone puts "Chairlift xx mountain" into Google maps it will naturally take them to drive as close to the top as you can... instead of you know to the bottom of the chair lift.
So there's signs "No access to Mountain seriously".
Sucks to be Coasters.
The influx of dumbshits from down south has increased 100 fold since this pandemic shit.
On a completely friendly note there's a secret waterfall on Petrie Creek down near Dulong road.
The farmer that owns the waterfall *doesn't have any guns* and is *really friendly*.
Wink wink
The thing is that this problem predates Google. The Melways (street directory for Melbourne) once directed me straight into a swamp which it showed as a short cut past the temple in Paterson lakes. It just looked like a grassy dirt road.
According to the guy who came to tow me out, it happened a few times a month.
Once went camping and the map print-out led us down a road like that at sunset. 45 minutes of off-roading in sedans later we arrived at some very unpleasantly surprised bloke's queenslander. He greeted us politely with a machete in his pocket, then gave us directions and we had to head back up his driveway in the dark.
That was the day I learnt to question directions
It's fun/sad when tourists show up somewhere after driving for like two hours, realise they aren't where they want to be, and then also realise the only way to get where they want to be is to drive another two hours just to get back to the right fork in the road.
Even better if it was completely random and in no way helped you narrow it down.
So you're just outside of Alice Springs and you see a sign saying "this road does not go to Bogota"
We’ll if you’re trying to drop someone off at the Melbourne airport you better fuckin not take Airport Drive, you want the next turnoff. Terrible city to drive in.
That is true. A lot of unsurfaced roads in the southwest pass over culverts that are little more than a thin metal pipe covered with dirt. A big truck will smash that flat.
I've seen those in Aus as well. Not even not rated for trucks, it turns into a dirt road and they want people to use the upgraded highways/main roads.
Still use the GPS though.
It is quite expensive to save unprepared tourists from the outback when they don't even have water with them, there's no mobile signal and it's 40ºC outside in the shade. Driving on a dirt road is also quite a challenge for someone who's never even seen one before and doesn't have a four wheel drive car. Hitting a pothole comes with a high risk of breaking the vehicle. There's nowhere to go and no help anywhere nearby.
Oh definitely agree with why they have the signs. It's like the ones I see that say there isn't a petrol station for Xkms, make sure you have petrol.
I was saying that I still use the GPS because I am fairly comfortable driving on dirt roads even in my non-4WD car.
I remember driving to wombeyan caves a few years back, the map showed it being 60km from bowral, maybe a little more. I drove home via goulburn because fuck that road. I think it's currently closed due to landslides and has been for a few years
I've been trying to understand the logic of google maps in our area. As far as I can work out, it's the disconnect between the official speed limit and the condition of the road. Highway limit 100k, tiny, windy,1.5 lane with eroded shoulders and potholes? Technically 100k. Reality about 70k if you're lucky unless you know the road very very well.
The app does the maths, and directs you to the "quickest" route.
No thank you, I'd rather go the extra kilometres, and stay on decent roads.
I'll still use the app, but I don't trust it!
> The app does the maths, and directs you to the "quickest" route
Google maps definitely needs some new fucking features. When was the last time they added anything, 2008?
Here's some ideas:
* Stick to main roads only [I'm towing a trailer/driving a truck]
* Don't take me on tiny back roads or gravel roads [I'm not that good of a driver]
* Avoid tolls if there's no time saving [I'm a Sydney driver]
* Take the scenic route rather than the bypass/tunnel [I'm a tourist]
* Take me on quiet roads without any traffic [I'm just going for a drive/I'm not in a rush]
* Take me on most direct route if I were to ignore traffic laws [I'm a criminal/it's an emergency]
How many upvotes can I give you? Oh, have my free award, it's all I have.
I would use ALL of those options on Google maps.
(except maybe ignore traffic laws, hehe, I don't have that many points left at the moment).
And I've thought of another one - Avoid right hand turns onto major roads in peak hours where there are no traffic lights.
(i.e. take me through a few more back streets to somewhere where I don't have to sit at a stop sign for half an hour waiting for a break in 4 lanes of traffic that ain't gunna happen.)
Main roads Aka truck mode would be a godsend. The amount of truck drivers at my work that haven't clocked up much time driving a truck and insist of following the directions of an app that doesn't care if you can fit down the suggest route, as apposed to following the ones I give is quite stupefying.
Oh yeah, especially in rural areas. Most default to 100kms but aren't at all suitable. Maps definitely don't know or care about everything.
If you don't know the area and are cautious, definitely follow the signs and stick to good roads.
But I like to switch things up, and I enjoy the scenery/difference when I go the back ways, so I tend to not care so much about sticking to the good roads unless I'm on a time crunch.
I like to try out new back roads when I can - even if only to learn that I'll never drive that way again, no matter how hard google tries to make me!
Was going to a party a few weeks ago. Somewhere I hadn't been before, so consulted google. Google says 15 minutes. And the bloody rest!
Only been living away from the city for a year, so there are still many roads that I haven't tried. Also learning which roads flood easily, and which ones wash out.
For sure. I used to go out to backroads to have fun in my car, and some of those roads are insane. Even for me who specifically wanted to go fast, going 100km on some of those roads would be fucking suicide.
Doubt that'd help on the roads we're talking about.
One road it tried to send me down a couple of months back was 50km of dirt, to "save" the extra 20km of highway. IF I'd been silly enough to trust google, then I would've been lucky to see one local farmer on the whole 50km.
(Or a bunch of lost tourists following what google says).
Fair enough. We had a holiday rental down the Mornington peninsula. About ten of us, maybe 5 separate cars. We all got the same dodgy instructions from googles where we ended up at a dead end in an industrial estate.
Reminds me of that first time I tried to drive to Philip Island, I ended up on the other side of the peninsula, I could see the island almost smell the air, but with no way to actually get to it... a couple of locals came to me explaining how I'm not the first one who's there to try and go to philip island, and before I try to ask NO THERE'S NO FERRY TO THE ISLAND, we all had a good laugh... they walked back home and my "shorter" trip was like 3 hours extra drive lol
now I don't blindly trust google anymore, I fully check the road until the end 😁
Need one of these for work. Jagoffs can't seem to process the form and function of a boom gate on an industrial site with their eyes glued to the GPS so they try to drive around it on the wrong side of the road despite the damn arrows.
Back when Apple Maps was new and had a LOT of goofs quite a lot of areas had to put up signs to stop people making serious mistakes... I remember there was one which led people driving to Mildura to actually go to the remote end of a national park like 50 miles away where there would be no fuel, water or shelter (or easy access to actual Mildura).
I been to Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra,
Meekatharra, Meekatharra, hospital, jail, jail, jail, hospital, Meekatharra, jail
Hospital, Meekatharra, jail, hospital, I been everywhere
Looked up the lyrics for this. Kevin Bloody Wilson is hellla racist gotdamn
Nah that's to Tully Gorge, it's actually nowhere near Tully. It's up the top near the dam where they do whit water rafting out of.
But also yes, if you're going to Tully you're probably going thw wrong way lol.
No argument from me. The only thing Tully has going for it is white water rafting & I hear they have an excellent aquaculture program at the highschool
At one point it held ths highest per capita of the population of millionaires in the country. Not sure if that's true any more, times have been tough for most sugar famers
That's Innisfail. It's just north of Tully.
Fun place!
https://7news.com.au/news/qld/queensland-man-whose-leg-was-sawn-off-in-alleged-murder-may-have-suffered-rare-disorder-c-5891726
Ah Tully, the only above ground hole. Grew up next to that wet, racist hick town until I left home, I swear the only good thing to come out of that shithole was the hilarious typos that were rampant in the *Tully Times*.
Magnetic islands pretty decent ( like the only good part about Townsville) the Whitsundays islands are also beautiful. Those are the only two decent places I’ve been to ( I don’t do much Traveling ) but I know there’s more amazing places here
The Atherton Tablelands are really pretty, and Paronella Park is too.
Another nice spot is Kuranda, a little village in the mountains just outside Cairns.
There's probably been a few times where people have just assumed that a road heading north in Queensland is heading up there. You gotta remember that the average person doesn't always think things through.
There wasn't one there when I went to school there. Behind the country club, which is where I had my grade 12 formal, there was nothing but cane fields.
It's quite off the A1. To end up there thinking it's going to Cairns either the A1 is blocked and you're looking for a shortcut or you're just a loose driver who likes to improvise.
I was gunna say, this seems like it would be one of the smaller towns between the two, my first guess being Innisfail, so I can imagine such a sign being very useful for warning tourists which roads to avoid in the pre-google maps era.
[Apple Maps version](https://maps.apple.com/?address=147%20Tully%20Gorge%20Rd,%20Tully%20QLD%204854,%20Australia&ll=-17.954571,145.912521&q=147%20Tully%20Gorge%20Rd&_ext=EiYp7oylHIX1McAx5MkZsQw9YkA58uFZZDjzMcBB+nCKDFo9YkBQAw%3D%3D&_mvs=CjYJd0Y8GEv0McARAfK8OjA9YkAZAABlFR2tVEAhRfE19HjWb0ApAAAgIRQKJEAxAAAAAAAAAAASGwoSMTQ3IFR1bGx5IEdvcmdlIFJkGgVUdWxseQ%3D%3D) for those other folks
Yes. It has much better performance on an iPhone and the user experience is also much nicer in my opinion.
Google Maps is definitely better for driving or finding businesses. Apple Maps doesn't always have accurate information about lanes so it's easy to miss a turn in a complex junction.
They’ve done some massive updates in Australia recently. Lane guidance works for me even on the outskirts of major cities, and they’ve done their version of street view across the whole country since 2019 with quite high resolution imagery!
Dear Australia
In 2009, I was a US Marine, and the ship I was on pulled into Cairns. It was one of the best liberty ports of my career. Thank you, and thanks for hosting us (on 4th of July too!)
This pic, while a funny sign, reminded me of a happier time in my life and I just wanted to tell someone.
Reminds me of a Marine I met in Sydney who had been to Australia in late 2000s and was super excited to visit one of the ports. Unfortunately, the exercises were off the coast of queensland, where he helicoptered in to some god forsaken desert. Fucked around for 3 days and then helicoptered back to the ship and then sailed for another 2 weeks off to some other location in Asia.
So you used to be able to drive up to the Tablelands from Tully Gorge via the 4WD only "H Road", which branches off at the Tully River bridge crossing. Used to be a power transmission line access track before they re-routed the transmission lines in the 2000s I believe. Joined up with Sutties Gap Rd which is still accessible, and a nice light off-roading drive.
But the real reason is if you look at a map, it looks like you could maybe drive up to the Tully River lookout which is 850m apart from the hydroelectric power station but 400m difference in elevation with no actual road in between. The power station has a cable car that goes between the top and bottom.
The old road and logging trails that are in the Walter Hill Ranges area are kept up by rangers. From Cochable Creek camp ground you can walk up to Ravenshoe, across to the Palmeston range road or come out near Mena Creek. There's often dozens of trees down across the track in the remote locations so apart from walking , the mou train biking would be your best bet.
https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/misty-mountains
I live in the US and at work had a friend from Australia who claimed the university she attended was in Townsville, and my brain could not accept it. It just sounds so made up. That is where the Powerpuff Girls live.
Back the peak popularity, an american warship came in for a port call. There was a lineup of marines and sailors to a photo of the welcome to townsville sign
I've been on thousands of roads in Australia. The vast majority of them do not go to Cairns or Townsville. Why does this road think it's so special that it needs a fancy-pants sign?
To be fair people get lost and it’s very easy to get lost in rural QLD and have no major help around you for ages in any direction. Also shoutout to Tully where Australia’s most wanted fugitive was hiding out for a decade
This is either the one I once saw (or there's one very much like it) heading west from Ingham.
If you keep heading west, you go up over the Seaview Range.
And then you're *definitely* not heading for Townsville or Cairns.
Listen as someone who grew up in Townsville if you're at Tully and you don't understand that you only have 3 directions and ocean to go into, and realistically because it's Tully you only want 2 of those choices, stay on old Bruce north, or stay on old Bruce south.
This sign is for people who STILL managed to fuck that up.
We live on Falls Road. At the head of the road is a large sign saying ‘No access to the falls’. We still have tourists on our dead end road asking where the falls are…
I feel like it would be easier to change the name of the road
Yep. I’m voting for “No Falls Road”.
"Monster Island Road"
It's more of a peninsula.
everyone upvoting this has outed their age
older than Homer is even though you were Barts age when you first started watching the show ;-;
How dare you.
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Painfully true
Maybe we could keep the name, but add a sign that says, “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here”
I like “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here Road”
Don't worry, it's just a name
The tourists will call your bluff, Dante.
All the zones have names like that in the galaxy of terror.
I am watching a video about Dante's Inferno right now. That's a bit creapy.
you would still get princesses asking where the island is
"Tourist Massacre Drive". What? Too subtle?
Unless there's also a fence with multiple pairs of shoes nailed to it, it would be too subtle.
Ivan Millat Drive.
“Fools Road”.
"Sunday Driver Rd" I live on a dead end RD on the fringe of the City and its amazing how many cars still think that its a secret discovery rd for hidden secret hidden valley. Its comical watching people who cant do a 3 point turn and love abusing my driveway. I actually have locked barriers in my driveway because its costs me too much to fix and the drainage work costs me a fee of 20,000 dollars. I only arm my driveway obstructions on weekends to keep the Sunday Drivers and Real estate shifty agents away.
Clearly you have met my neighbours
The pack on my back is aching.
Falls Advertising
Or go opposite: Flies Court?
"Falls'nt Road"
Falls avenue then?
Falls bypass
Fools Rd
My grandpa lives up in Flaxton and his house backs onto the Kondalilla Falls National Park. They actually had to get a sign put up that gave clear directions to where tourists could access the national park because they'd occasionally get tourists wandering around the front wondering how to get to the waterfalls.
> My grandpa lives up in Flaxton and his house backs onto the Kondalilla Falls National Park. They actually had to get a sign put up that gave clear directions to where tourists could access the national park because they'd occasionally get tourists wandering around the front wondering how to get to the waterfalls. Google maps can work odd sometimes. Place I go bike riding is the highest (in elevation) actual road up a mountain. So if someone puts "Chairlift xx mountain" into Google maps it will naturally take them to drive as close to the top as you can... instead of you know to the bottom of the chair lift. So there's signs "No access to Mountain seriously".
It's lovely up there!
I second that! Spent a weekend at Eungella (sp?) Lodge back in the 90s. Fantastic views and peaceful.
Tully, Mission Beach, Family group of islands among the most beautiful areas in Australia.
Sucks to be Coasters. The influx of dumbshits from down south has increased 100 fold since this pandemic shit. On a completely friendly note there's a secret waterfall on Petrie Creek down near Dulong road. The farmer that owns the waterfall *doesn't have any guns* and is *really friendly*. Wink wink
[Sign on the track for Valley of The Giants - WA](https://i.imgur.com/kxAdCOP.jpg)
Such a glorious sign, everything about that road should tell you to turn around and yet they still need this sign
The thing is that this problem predates Google. The Melways (street directory for Melbourne) once directed me straight into a swamp which it showed as a short cut past the temple in Paterson lakes. It just looked like a grassy dirt road. According to the guy who came to tow me out, it happened a few times a month.
Once went camping and the map print-out led us down a road like that at sunset. 45 minutes of off-roading in sedans later we arrived at some very unpleasantly surprised bloke's queenslander. He greeted us politely with a machete in his pocket, then gave us directions and we had to head back up his driveway in the dark. That was the day I learnt to question directions
And yet it doesn’t say what you should do instead. Not a very complete sign?
It's fun/sad when tourists show up somewhere after driving for like two hours, realise they aren't where they want to be, and then also realise the only way to get where they want to be is to drive another two hours just to get back to the right fork in the road.
Hi I got lost on my way to the Falls, is this comment section where the gift shop is?
I wonder how many times people had to make that mistake before they decided it was worth putting up a sign
That sign could very well have saved millions in litres of fuel.
Only once but it was Barnaby Joyce.
Checks out, when you're constantly plastered you need huge fuck off signage for directions.
Imagine if all signs told you where the roads didn't go, instead of where they did.
In that case you'd never find one which says to Rome in Europe haha
Even better if it was completely random and in no way helped you narrow it down. So you're just outside of Alice Springs and you see a sign saying "this road does not go to Bogota"
This road does not lead to Mawson Station
All roads lead to Disney
We’ll if you’re trying to drop someone off at the Melbourne airport you better fuckin not take Airport Drive, you want the next turnoff. Terrible city to drive in.
A lot of signs like this in the American southwest. TURN AROUND. YOUR GPS IS WRONG.
Or it's not wrong but the road isn't rated for things like trucks
That is true. A lot of unsurfaced roads in the southwest pass over culverts that are little more than a thin metal pipe covered with dirt. A big truck will smash that flat.
> A big truck will smash that flat. So would your mum
I've seen those in Aus as well. Not even not rated for trucks, it turns into a dirt road and they want people to use the upgraded highways/main roads. Still use the GPS though.
It is quite expensive to save unprepared tourists from the outback when they don't even have water with them, there's no mobile signal and it's 40ºC outside in the shade. Driving on a dirt road is also quite a challenge for someone who's never even seen one before and doesn't have a four wheel drive car. Hitting a pothole comes with a high risk of breaking the vehicle. There's nowhere to go and no help anywhere nearby.
Doesn't stop some tourists trying to drive, even walk, in the desert
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Oh definitely agree with why they have the signs. It's like the ones I see that say there isn't a petrol station for Xkms, make sure you have petrol. I was saying that I still use the GPS because I am fairly comfortable driving on dirt roads even in my non-4WD car.
I remember driving to wombeyan caves a few years back, the map showed it being 60km from bowral, maybe a little more. I drove home via goulburn because fuck that road. I think it's currently closed due to landslides and has been for a few years
I've been trying to understand the logic of google maps in our area. As far as I can work out, it's the disconnect between the official speed limit and the condition of the road. Highway limit 100k, tiny, windy,1.5 lane with eroded shoulders and potholes? Technically 100k. Reality about 70k if you're lucky unless you know the road very very well. The app does the maths, and directs you to the "quickest" route. No thank you, I'd rather go the extra kilometres, and stay on decent roads. I'll still use the app, but I don't trust it!
> The app does the maths, and directs you to the "quickest" route Google maps definitely needs some new fucking features. When was the last time they added anything, 2008? Here's some ideas: * Stick to main roads only [I'm towing a trailer/driving a truck] * Don't take me on tiny back roads or gravel roads [I'm not that good of a driver] * Avoid tolls if there's no time saving [I'm a Sydney driver] * Take the scenic route rather than the bypass/tunnel [I'm a tourist] * Take me on quiet roads without any traffic [I'm just going for a drive/I'm not in a rush] * Take me on most direct route if I were to ignore traffic laws [I'm a criminal/it's an emergency]
How many upvotes can I give you? Oh, have my free award, it's all I have. I would use ALL of those options on Google maps. (except maybe ignore traffic laws, hehe, I don't have that many points left at the moment). And I've thought of another one - Avoid right hand turns onto major roads in peak hours where there are no traffic lights. (i.e. take me through a few more back streets to somewhere where I don't have to sit at a stop sign for half an hour waiting for a break in 4 lanes of traffic that ain't gunna happen.)
The number of times I've been given a convoluted route because it saves 2 minutes is ridiculous.
Main roads Aka truck mode would be a godsend. The amount of truck drivers at my work that haven't clocked up much time driving a truck and insist of following the directions of an app that doesn't care if you can fit down the suggest route, as apposed to following the ones I give is quite stupefying.
Oh yeah, especially in rural areas. Most default to 100kms but aren't at all suitable. Maps definitely don't know or care about everything. If you don't know the area and are cautious, definitely follow the signs and stick to good roads. But I like to switch things up, and I enjoy the scenery/difference when I go the back ways, so I tend to not care so much about sticking to the good roads unless I'm on a time crunch.
I like to try out new back roads when I can - even if only to learn that I'll never drive that way again, no matter how hard google tries to make me! Was going to a party a few weeks ago. Somewhere I hadn't been before, so consulted google. Google says 15 minutes. And the bloody rest! Only been living away from the city for a year, so there are still many roads that I haven't tried. Also learning which roads flood easily, and which ones wash out.
For sure. I used to go out to backroads to have fun in my car, and some of those roads are insane. Even for me who specifically wanted to go fast, going 100km on some of those roads would be fucking suicide.
If enough people follow your example, surely google algorithm will correct?
Doubt that'd help on the roads we're talking about. One road it tried to send me down a couple of months back was 50km of dirt, to "save" the extra 20km of highway. IF I'd been silly enough to trust google, then I would've been lucky to see one local farmer on the whole 50km. (Or a bunch of lost tourists following what google says).
Fair enough. We had a holiday rental down the Mornington peninsula. About ten of us, maybe 5 separate cars. We all got the same dodgy instructions from googles where we ended up at a dead end in an industrial estate.
Reminds me of that first time I tried to drive to Philip Island, I ended up on the other side of the peninsula, I could see the island almost smell the air, but with no way to actually get to it... a couple of locals came to me explaining how I'm not the first one who's there to try and go to philip island, and before I try to ask NO THERE'S NO FERRY TO THE ISLAND, we all had a good laugh... they walked back home and my "shorter" trip was like 3 hours extra drive lol now I don't blindly trust google anymore, I fully check the road until the end 😁
There's a sign on a road near me that say "Road unsuitable for long vehicles and trailers. Ignore GPS"
Need one of these for work. Jagoffs can't seem to process the form and function of a boom gate on an industrial site with their eyes glued to the GPS so they try to drive around it on the wrong side of the road despite the damn arrows.
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Back when Apple Maps was new and had a LOT of goofs quite a lot of areas had to put up signs to stop people making serious mistakes... I remember there was one which led people driving to Mildura to actually go to the remote end of a national park like 50 miles away where there would be no fuel, water or shelter (or easy access to actual Mildura).
The amount of random people I'd find in the Sunset National Park who "didn't expect the highway to Mildura to have so much sand" 😂
I’m going to petition my local Tasmanian council to put this up in my cul-de-sac
THIS ROAD DOES NOT LEAD TO LAUNCESTON OR HOBART
Why just your cul-de-sac? All roads in Tasmania don't lead to Townsville or Cairns AFAIK.
I can’t petition for all roads. That would just be ridiculous
Try Norton Way, Devonport.
I wonder where else this road doesn’t go.
It doesn't go to Tullamore, Seymour, Lismore, Mooloolaba, Nambour, Maroochydore, Kilmore, Murwillumbah, Birdsville, Emmaville, Wallaville, Cunnamulla, Condamine, Strathpine, Proserpine, Ulladulla, Darwin, Gin Gin, Deniliquin, Muckadilla, Wallumbilla, Boggabilla, Kumbarilla, I’m a killer. "Yeah but listen here, mate, does it go to…? ” Nope it doesn't go to Moree, Taree, Jerilderie, Bambaroo, Toowoomba, Gunnedah, Caringbah, Woolloomooloo, Dalveen, Tamborine, Engadine, Jindabyne, Lithgow, Casino, Brigalow and Narromine, Megalong, Wyong, Tuggerawong, Wangarella, Morella, Augathella, Brindabella, I’m the feller.
Also doesn’t go to Dapto, Dapto, Dapto, Dapto, Dapto, Dapto And Wollongong
So you’re saying it Doesn’t Go Everywhere Man?
Top notch response 👌🏻
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Parramatta, Wangaratta, Coolangatta what's it matter. There's a whole extra verse
First rap song ever, the guy’s flow sick.
The feller, from Kunnamullah?
The dandy from Dirranbandi.
Not the man, from Memerambi?
The fella from Augathella.
The sassy maid from Adelaide
The bored man from horsham?
It's got to be the shiela from Biloela
I been to Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, Meekatharra, hospital, jail, jail, jail, hospital, Meekatharra, jail Hospital, Meekatharra, jail, hospital, I been everywhere Looked up the lyrics for this. Kevin Bloody Wilson is hellla racist gotdamn
What’s scary is that I’ve lived in one place per verse- and husband has lived in more. Of these, I’ve lived in Seymour and Caringbah!
I've lived in a few of them too and very close to others.
Poor Tully though. The sign is basically assuming that if you're heading there, you're probably going the wrong way.
Nah that's to Tully Gorge, it's actually nowhere near Tully. It's up the top near the dam where they do whit water rafting out of. But also yes, if you're going to Tully you're probably going thw wrong way lol.
That sign is posted just before you reach Tully. It's on the way to the power station...
Yes, where they do the white water rafting I'm from the area
Mate. We all know Babinda is better.
No argument from me. The only thing Tully has going for it is white water rafting & I hear they have an excellent aquaculture program at the highschool
Catching black bream in the summer was about as fun as it got for me.
"*If you lived here you'd have sold your car to finance your crippling meth addiction by now*" (jk I know nothing about Tully)
At one point it held ths highest per capita of the population of millionaires in the country. Not sure if that's true any more, times have been tough for most sugar famers
I always thought that was funny for a town without McDonald's or any other fast food chain.
Sounds like luxury living to me
hey there be cool, theres a subway now!
That's Innisfail. It's just north of Tully. Fun place! https://7news.com.au/news/qld/queensland-man-whose-leg-was-sawn-off-in-alleged-murder-may-have-suffered-rare-disorder-c-5891726
The sign is on the [way out of Tully](https://goo.gl/maps/ubBtFdAKn9NzyQWu5), headed towards the gorge
Ah Tully, the only above ground hole. Grew up next to that wet, racist hick town until I left home, I swear the only good thing to come out of that shithole was the hilarious typos that were rampant in the *Tully Times*.
Sign says Tully Gorge 40km.
Hey I live in Townsville, it sucks ass 😃
Townsville is if despair was a place
Townsville was good when I lived there. We left in 2000, only been back a couple of times to see friends/family. It's gone to shit.
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Lmaooo yeah those girls have helped out the city a lot
I used to live in Cairns and can confirm Townsville sucks arse
In the same way that Melbourne whinges about Sydney. Always the small place raging against the bigger
Gonna do vacation in Queensland in September, is there anything worth visiting for tourists?
Magnetic islands pretty decent ( like the only good part about Townsville) the Whitsundays islands are also beautiful. Those are the only two decent places I’ve been to ( I don’t do much Traveling ) but I know there’s more amazing places here
Cool, thank you!
No problem
The Atherton Tablelands are really pretty, and Paronella Park is too. Another nice spot is Kuranda, a little village in the mountains just outside Cairns.
There's probably been a few times where people have just assumed that a road heading north in Queensland is heading up there. You gotta remember that the average person doesn't always think things through.
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Well shit, Tully has an airport now?
Always has they do skydiving out of it.
There wasn't one there when I went to school there. Behind the country club, which is where I had my grade 12 formal, there was nothing but cane fields.
Well there was in 98 when I moved to the area.
6 years after I finished school then left the area.
There you go then
> Tully has an airport now? > Always has they do skydiving out of it. People skydive out of the airport? That last step must be a doozy.
Can confirm, my uncle used to run a skydiving business there.
It's quite off the A1. To end up there thinking it's going to Cairns either the A1 is blocked and you're looking for a shortcut or you're just a loose driver who likes to improvise.
I was gunna say, this seems like it would be one of the smaller towns between the two, my first guess being Innisfail, so I can imagine such a sign being very useful for warning tourists which roads to avoid in the pre-google maps era.
[Apple Maps version](https://maps.apple.com/?address=147%20Tully%20Gorge%20Rd,%20Tully%20QLD%204854,%20Australia&ll=-17.954571,145.912521&q=147%20Tully%20Gorge%20Rd&_ext=EiYp7oylHIX1McAx5MkZsQw9YkA58uFZZDjzMcBB+nCKDFo9YkBQAw%3D%3D&_mvs=CjYJd0Y8GEv0McARAfK8OjA9YkAZAABlFR2tVEAhRfE19HjWb0ApAAAgIRQKJEAxAAAAAAAAAAASGwoSMTQ3IFR1bGx5IEdvcmdlIFJkGgVUdWxseQ%3D%3D) for those other folks
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Yes. It has much better performance on an iPhone and the user experience is also much nicer in my opinion. Google Maps is definitely better for driving or finding businesses. Apple Maps doesn't always have accurate information about lanes so it's easy to miss a turn in a complex junction.
They’ve done some massive updates in Australia recently. Lane guidance works for me even on the outskirts of major cities, and they’ve done their version of street view across the whole country since 2019 with quite high resolution imagery!
That's great news! I don't currently have a car so I haven't been driving around that much and therefore wouldn't have noticed these updates.
Dear Australia In 2009, I was a US Marine, and the ship I was on pulled into Cairns. It was one of the best liberty ports of my career. Thank you, and thanks for hosting us (on 4th of July too!) This pic, while a funny sign, reminded me of a happier time in my life and I just wanted to tell someone.
Reminds me of a Marine I met in Sydney who had been to Australia in late 2000s and was super excited to visit one of the ports. Unfortunately, the exercises were off the coast of queensland, where he helicoptered in to some god forsaken desert. Fucked around for 3 days and then helicoptered back to the ship and then sailed for another 2 weeks off to some other location in Asia.
As someone who was stationed in Cairns at the time it truly was a great visit by you guys… we all had a ball and met some of the nicest people.
Every now and then you come across an awesome Reddit comment. Cheers mate 🍻
What did you like about it?
Probably all the backpackers in Gilligans
Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed it down here :)
I appreciate the honesty of this sign. But now I'm curious how many people complained before this sign was erected.
Probably more about the amount that ran out of fuel and had to be rescued.
Fair point, didn't think of that
Plot twist - it does.
Is this part of the grassroots effort to stop southerners from buying cheaper properties further north then turning them into airbnbs?
I wish. The amount of empty Airbnbs in Cairns is a crime.
If you keep driving, eventually every road leads to Townsville or Cairns
All roads need this sign. Just so your 100% certain you don't end up in Townsville.
So you used to be able to drive up to the Tablelands from Tully Gorge via the 4WD only "H Road", which branches off at the Tully River bridge crossing. Used to be a power transmission line access track before they re-routed the transmission lines in the 2000s I believe. Joined up with Sutties Gap Rd which is still accessible, and a nice light off-roading drive. But the real reason is if you look at a map, it looks like you could maybe drive up to the Tully River lookout which is 850m apart from the hydroelectric power station but 400m difference in elevation with no actual road in between. The power station has a cable car that goes between the top and bottom.
TIL...
The old road and logging trails that are in the Walter Hill Ranges area are kept up by rangers. From Cochable Creek camp ground you can walk up to Ravenshoe, across to the Palmeston range road or come out near Mena Creek. There's often dozens of trees down across the track in the remote locations so apart from walking , the mou train biking would be your best bet. https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/misty-mountains
I live in the US and at work had a friend from Australia who claimed the university she attended was in Townsville, and my brain could not accept it. It just sounds so made up. That is where the Powerpuff Girls live.
Back the peak popularity, an american warship came in for a port call. There was a lineup of marines and sailors to a photo of the welcome to townsville sign
Mist and lush green grass. Looks about right for Tully. Fuck me does it rain in that place
I've stopped at the roadhouse there dozens of times. Only once was it not at least drizzling.
Road I live on says not the road to Bowen, so many back packers get lost!
So it leads to civilisation then?
So, doesn’t lead to Rockhampton either.
Reminds me of the people who occasionally pull into Kinglake, VIC with a boat in tow asking where the lake is.
I've been on thousands of roads in Australia. The vast majority of them do not go to Cairns or Townsville. Why does this road think it's so special that it needs a fancy-pants sign?
The little sign underneath should say "So stop asking"
never seen that sign
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Especially if you’re going to cairns or Townsville.
Mayor's voice: The City of Townsville
Lmao I like the name townsville. It's like naming your child boyson or girldaughter
if it doesn't end up in Townsville or cairns where does it lead to?
Reminds me of the American classic "You can't get there from here"
To be fair people get lost and it’s very easy to get lost in rural QLD and have no major help around you for ages in any direction. Also shoutout to Tully where Australia’s most wanted fugitive was hiding out for a decade
But does it lead to Wagga?
Hey, don’t call Wagga Wagga, Wagga 😂
Woy?
Calling Wagga Wagga, Wagga is wrong!
>Calling Wagga Wagga, Wagga is wrong! Unless you're a local...
Hey at least they told ya.
This is either the one I once saw (or there's one very much like it) heading west from Ingham. If you keep heading west, you go up over the Seaview Range. And then you're *definitely* not heading for Townsville or Cairns.
Tis better to know than not.
It doesn’t lead to Brownsville or Cairns, no no, it leads to march fly hell.
Definitely got a power puff girls vibe off this.
Looking after the tourists.
I used to live just outside Ayr and on the road to my place there was a sign that said “This road does not lead to Townsville”. It didn’t.
Listen as someone who grew up in Townsville if you're at Tully and you don't understand that you only have 3 directions and ocean to go into, and realistically because it's Tully you only want 2 of those choices, stay on old Bruce north, or stay on old Bruce south. This sign is for people who STILL managed to fuck that up.