by Andrea Rowe | Sep 9, 2014
The first thing you notice in Katherine Gorge / Nitimiluk NP is the silence. And then our squids arrive. Squabbling over paddles, directions and seat locations. Nitimiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park is the jewel of the region, a magnificent series of 13...
by Andrea Rowe | Sep 6, 2014
OK class…here’s a little Top End geography and history lesson for the town we know as Katherine. The Jaowyn and Dagomen people were the first people of the area, passing through the area for food and water, and they’ve left behind some of their stories in the...
by Andrea Rowe | Sep 5, 2014
Travelling along at 60 – 90 km per hour in a vehicle with air-conditioning, I cannot help but admire the early explorers and pioneers who opened up this route. Leichhardt, Burke and Wills, King … and others. We are merely travelling the next several hundreds of km’s...
by Andrea Rowe | Sep 3, 2014
It’s a new day…we’ve been serenaded by Barking Owls and watched over by a flirtatious peacock, we’ve rinsed off the red dust in a donkey system shower and we’ve pulled off the last of the shockers. We are on a mission to get out of here – we hold our...
by Andrea Rowe | Sep 2, 2014
Right then. This post goes down in the chapter of our trip as recounting the WORST ROAD EVER. While the road from Calvert Crossing to Borroloola was rather bumpy and dusty, and littered with broken down cars it was NOTHING compared to what was coming our way as we...
by Andrea Rowe | Aug 31, 2014
From Adels Grove we drive through stations and mustering action, dust whipped into a frenzy by restless cows as stockhands loaded them onto road trains. Dust, and fires and dry, parched soil. Today we are going straight to lucifer’s patch. Hell’s...
