Apologies but way too many photos in this post! Arnhem Land has been a real treat. Unspoilt, massive, dramatic wilderness. We stayed at Davidsons Safari Lodge and have been spoilt rotten. It is going to be hard to recrossed the East Alligator River and return to camping!               Davidson’s was glamping accommodation (with a definate emphasis […]

Our top end adventure began in Kakadu National Park where we stayed at Cooinda. From here we have been on the Yellow Water billabong, and explored the areas around Jim Jim Falls and Nourlangie Rock.            Kakadu is stunning. Lush green forests, massive rocky escarpments and wide open flood plains. At this time […]

July started with 2 driving days. 1650 km to Darwin and away from the centre to the warm tropics. We did it in two legs, a massive 1050k / 10h to Daly Waters and shorter 600k / 5 hours to our friends, Paul and Emma in Darwin. Highlights on the way included crossing the Tropic […]

Our next leg (June 29) was to Glen Helen Gorge in the West MacDonnell Ranges. This was our first dirt road leg, the Mereenie Loop Road. 155km that we had been warned was “sandy and very rutted” when we tried to get the permit to use it.    In reality it was not too bad; lots […]

 Kings canyon resort on June 27 and 28. We walked the Kimgs Canyon Rim walk (7.5k) and the creek walk, wonderful place!                      

We arrived from Coober Pedy just in time to make sunset.  Wow… what a spectacular way to be introduced to Uluru.  We made it despite the masses of cars with similar plans and the single person manning the Park gate at sunset doing their best to make sure that none of us got there!    […]

Day 3 was Broken Hill to Coober Pedy, a massive 950km in 10 hours. Remarkably it really did not seem all that bad. The landscape kept changing, from desert of Broken Hill back to costal again at Port Augusta (the western end of the Bight which is pretty much where we are planning on finishing […]

We have a Jayco Swan Outback. Why did we chose this over the myriad of other options out there?  Funnily enough, there was no real logic behind the choice except this is what we were always going to get!  I suspect that we may have read Alison Lesters’ “Are We There Yet?” too many times and their trailer […]