The Hume Hwy or Hume Freeway (M31) is the major inter-city road joining Australia's two largest cities; Sydney and Melbourne. In August 2013 the road was completed as a dual carriageway and bypassed all the towns en route. You can now drive from the Sydney Harbour Bridge all the way to the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne without a single traffic light.

The trip can be driven comfortably in 10 hours depending on when and where you leave from and arrive at in the cities at each end -- leaving and/or arriving in peak hour traffic can have a big influence on the overall travel time. Maximum speed on the highway is 110 kph and the road is heavily policed with mobile and fixed speed cameras.

There are plenty of rest and fuel stops along the way although I prefer to patronise the smaller towns just off the highway a little rather than the 24hr fast food and fuel stops. Holbrook (a little over half-way) is always a good spot to take a decent break with the attraction of the old Oberon Class submarine HMAS Otway in a local park and a good second-hand bookshop.

For more information on the Hume Highway see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hume_hig...


Filmed with a gopro camera, this video is a compilation of timelapse photos taken every 5 seconds throughout the trip.

One photo every 5 seconds
12 photos a minute
720 photos an hour
~7500 photos for the trip
(Some photos were edited out during breaks)

At 100 kph and one photo every 5 seconds, that would mean a photo is taken for each ~ 139 metres of road travelled.

The video is played back at 25 frames per second, so for each second of video on the open road with no obstructions (ie 100kph), the scenery is passing by at around 3.5 km per second.

Obviously you could get much smoother video playback by taking a photo every second, however it's always a trade off between smoothness and how long you want the finished video to run for, and I thought that 6 minutes was a reasonable length to get a feel for the road without being too long.


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