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Border Crossings. Tricky things. Usually involving passports, declaration forms and sweaty uniformed officers asking about your employment. Crossing into Western Australia is an entirely different matter. They are peering in eskies and under the camper trailer...
We fuel up on Katherine and travel west towards the Victoria River region. Expecting a boring drive, we find ourselves loving the drive through the Judbarra / Gregory National Park. It’s 13, 000 square km’s of amazing land-forms, towering sandstone pillars and...
War time and waterfalls. The two images, and experiences couldn't be more far apart. And yet here in the Northern Territory we are spending time at both. We swing by Adelaide River to round off our Australian war time history appreciation. From 1939, with...
Tonight we have one final dinner with family to enjoy, one more frogs in the shower count to complete, and a last minute horse ride for Little Miss Squid who so wants to be a cow girl. We’re reflecting on our Northern Territory time and what we have learnt:- NT...
Today we are throwing the guide book out the window. We are going with the flow. Up the track a bit, and towards some unexpected insights into Territory living.But first … to Batchelor and its reinvention On the way to Litchfield NP is Batchelor. We’re stopping...
On the outskirts of Darwin where the Stuart Highway meets the Arnhem Highway is the town of Humpty Doo. And beyond that Noonamah. It’s all mango farms, buffalo horns on gates and freight containers passing for homes in large paddocks. We are staying with my cousin...
And much of the Top End’s tourist experiences today help tell a fascinating story of Darwin, with it’s history remarkably well preserved. Darwin became an important base for the Allies in the lead-up to World War II. Darwin became the first mainland site in...
When you are hanging out in Jabiru - all roads lead to one spiritual moment - a sunset at Ubirr. Jabiru is a great base for a good few hours spent at the Bowali Visitor Centre with a library affording us some quiet reading time, and stylish interpretation filling...
Sorry Business forms a sombre backdrop during our visit in Kakadu, and becomes more prevalent as we cruise into Jabiru for supplies. Red ochre streaks are smeared across the bank, the library, signposts, vehicles, skin – they mark the buildings of Jabiru and...
Cooinda is the perfect base to head off on our Yellow Water Cruise. We’ve seen so much of this park from lookouts and at the base of waterfalls, now it’s time to check it out from the water. The picturesque Yellow Water Billabong and tributaries of the South...
In this nearly 20, 000 square km park there’s quite a few waterfalls and swimming holes to explore. We are so glad that someone tipped us off about Maguk / Barramundi Falls. I’m calling it the unsung hero of Kakadu. This Quiet Achiever was a short 1 km stroll in...
At a mere two billion years old, the World Heritage Listed Kakadu National Park is one of Australia’s most coveted “Must See” destination. It’s an internationally recognised ecological and cultural treasure. Check it out? Don't mind if I do! There’s over 1, 600...
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...
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...
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...
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 breaths and...
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...
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 Gate. I...
Using Adels Grove as our base we head into Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park its World Heritage Listed Riversleigh treasure chest of fossils. They are two jewels in Australia's outback crown. Beaut Boodjamulla National Park A trip into the national park...
Adels Grove - it's an oasis in the middle of the outback. It's got outback spunk. And hanging with its residents was quite inspiring. It's also got a bedrock of resilience. When you go into labour months earlier than expected, and you are thousands of miles from...
It’s so hot out here even your shadows can’t be bothered standing up. Rock hard ground slams at the souls of your feet, slender trees seem to withhold their shade, and if the watchful crows had lips they’d be licking them overhead. We are standing at a rather...
