Week 12 Sandfire, 80 Mile Beach, De Grey River, Port Headland, Kitty Gap, Coppin Gorge, Marble Bar, Carawine Gorge Day 78 Tuesday 17 October 2006 The drive between Broome and 80 mile beach lacks any major scenery. The scrub that lines the road is no taller than 2-3m...
Week 11 Broome, James Price Point, One Arm Point, Middle Lagoon, Beagle Bay, Barn Hill Day 71 Tuesday 10 October 2006 Rest day called again today. Even though we have a very exposed campsite, the gentle sea breeze throughout the day has meant temperatures have remain...
Week 10 Kununurra, Geike Gorge, Tunnel Creek, Windjana, Derby, Broome Tuesday 3rd Last night! Kununurra Caravan Park! Hot! Humid! Paralysed by tiredness! No energy to roll over! No Breeze! And we are sleeping with a frog! Alison refused to try and metamorph the frog...
Week 9 Kununurra, Ivanhoe Crossing, Bungle Bungles, El Questro, Gibb River Road Tuesday 26th Last night was an interesting night. We decided to have the cracks in our inner guard on the vehicle welded so we chose to stay in Kununurra and prepare the vehicle to assist...
Week 8 Katherine, Gregory NP, Keep River NP, Lake Argyle, Kununurra Monday 18th We left Nitmiluk (Katherine) Gorge about 10am with week 7 safely posted to our web site. Then we spent some time answering emails and reflecting on how week 7 had been a huge week and that...
Week 7 - Kakadu, Adelaide River, Dundee Beach, Mandorah, Katherine Tuesday 12th It was a good night sleep last night as the evenings are getting cooler again. This morning we ventured to the Warradjan Aboriginal Cultural Centre Art Display near the Yellow Waters area...
Week 6 - Darwin, Mary River, Kakadu Tuesday 5th OK decision made, we are out of Darwin today. A couple of errands first, eg sending back to Brisbane 22KG of items including clothes. Bus Freight was the solution! The next task was on to the shopping centre to stock up...
Week 5 - Litchfield, Darwin Tuesday 29th Up early this morning and on to "The Lost City" of Litchfield National Park. Now we try and say something positive about everything we see, BUT we think that a bunch of water deprived, heat stroked, deliriously punch drunk...
Week 4 - Lawn Hill, Nathan River, Roper Bar, Mataranka, Litchfield Tuesday 22nd Today we left Lawn Hill for the Northern Territory. We decided to take the route through Kingfisher Camp or KFC as it is known. The drive from Lawn Hill to KFC was an excellent run. It...
Week 3 - Chillagoe, Kuramba, Normanton, Burketown, Lawn Hill Tuesday 15th Yesterday was a terrific day. We took a guided tour through the Royal Arch Caves at Chillagoe, after we had finished accessing the internet at the general store .Our thanks to Vicky for her...
Week 2 - Cooktown, Mt Mulligan, Emuford, Chillagoe Tuesday 8th We woke this morning after another good night’s sleep. We have a new friend camped outside our tent as well, a dirty white dog with a black patch over one eye. He was very friendly & domesticated. It...
Week 1 - Brisbane, Bundaberg and Cooktown Tuesday 1st After a late night on Monday - some 2.30am we managed to get off about 10am. After some thought and a recommendation from Ian & Luey we decided on "Sexie Coffee". Coffee was great! Then we decided to start...