Australia resources

YouTube - it's actually a great travel planning resource.

Tripadvisor Things to Do in Australia
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g255055-Activities-Australia.html

Tripadvisor Australia Travel Forum
https://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowForum-g255055-i120-Australia.html

Earth Trekkers Australia Travel Guide
https://www.earthtrekkers.com/australia-travel-guide/

The Eyewitness Guides are pretty good too, and their "Backroads Australia" guidebook is particularly helpful if you plan to get behind the wheel while you're there.

Hi Donna, as well as guide books, internet searches looking at the various state and also city specific tourism websites provide up to date information and loads of ideas. I usual build my trips around the things the drew me to visit a particular town or region, for example we visited Sydney last year and I really wanted to spend time on and around the harbour, so that was my starting point there.
Australia is huge so best to keep checking travel distances and times when planning to move between cities and states. To get an idea of flight costs around the country, I use webjet.com.au and booking.com for accomodation ideas. I have never booked through either site as I choose to book directly with the airline or hotel so I can’t comment on their reliability.
Also, several Aussies hang out on this forum so plenty of local knowledge to share.
Happy travels

I used Fodors Travel Forum and Trip Advisor. TA is the most active for Australia and New Zealand. And I used the October 2021 Lonely Planet Guide, before they changed their format. I don't like the format of the new LP guidebooks (since 2023). And google travel blogs.

I love to read trip reports on Trip Advisor and this forum for ideas.

Good morning,

Thank you all for your kind assistance. It is greatly appreciated.

Please, this is not the first negative comment I've seen about changes (?) to the LP books. Why, what's the issue?

You might also try the Australian Tourism website, especially in your early planning stages. I used it for two different trips and got ideas to visit fantastic places I had never heard of before. https://www.australia.com/en-us/travel-inspiration.html?ef_id=Cj0KCQjw_dbABhC5ARIsAAh2Z-QbdphwXRxS-dGLrxtJgCfIDBP5kpTwy5tscvP9AZ7Vu_ygnsos4a0aAhFBEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4635!3!718154225672!p!!g!!australia%20travel!21827221092!174858452288&utm_actcampaign=21827221092&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADANU74Gs7sbw6trKjjE95xcGJiZX&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_dbABhC5ARIsAAh2Z-QbdphwXRxS-dGLrxtJgCfIDBP5kpTwy5tscvP9AZ7Vu_ygnsos4a0aAhFBEALw_wcB

The new LP guidebooks that I have seen are very limited in any meaningful info. Sort of a " here are a few nice things to do" type of thing rather than nitty gritty info. I haven't looked at the Aussie one as I am an Aussie but I checked out the NZ one last year and it had no useful info for our planned trip.
What areas are you hoping to visit and what are the things you hope to do and see?

Oh, sorry for the delay in replying. We're redoing our entire yard and the weather has been remarkably cooperative. Again, thanks for the answers.

Um, as to where..... It's most likely that we'd land in Sydney, as we'd be coming from North America. Canberra, as it's the country's capital. Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth. We are slow travelers, and unless it's changed, US citizens are allowed up to 90 days.

What..... Architecture, botanical gardens and parks, your unique wildlife, farmers markets, and just plain being (referencing and old thread, seeing vs being). We do enjoy walking on the beach, but as we're both fair we must be very careful, water sports aren't part of that for us. We are both vegan and would be self-catering. Denis can drive on the left, lol, I'd recite we drive on the left here, we drive on the left here every time we got in the car in the UK.

We lived for over a decade full time in our RV and covered all 50 states and 7 Canadian provinces, so we do understand that distances can be great, so sometimes flying would work better. (No, the RV did not go to Hawaii, lol.)

Same advice as before: peruse a few guidebooks to familiarize yourselves with your options and generally narrow down your choices according to your personal preferences.
Staying there for the full 90 days is definitely the way to go in my opinion - will give you plenty of time to meander at your own pace.
I'd personally consider adding Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef to your itinerary - lots to see and do up in Far North Queensland aside from the boat trip out to the reef. Consider carving out some time for Tasmania too - it's gorgeous, with some of the prettiest National Parks in all of Australia.
You'll want to include Uluru/Ayers Rock too, but know that you'll need to book accommodations well in advance - things book up months ahead. It relatively expensive too but certainly worth it.
Australia is indeed huge. A great (and relatively cheap) way to get around the country is by using the Qantas affiliate JetStar, which will get you where you want to go with a minimum of hassle and save you a LOT of time versus trying to drive the distances in a car.