NOW: LIMMEN NATIONAL PARK AND LORELLA SPRINGS After swimming in the hot springs at Mataranka we took the Roper Bar Highway. We have learnt to be careful of ‘so called’ highways but this was a decent road and we’d reached ‘the bar’ by lunch time. This was fishing paradise but you really needed a boat…
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NOW: NHULUNBUY IN ARNHEM LAND We had four overnight stops on our way north from Mt Isa. The first at Barkley Homestead then Banka Banka which was once a cattle outstation and now hosts highway travellers camped around the original mud brick station building. Next stop Daly Waters Roadhouse where we had mobile reception for…
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NOW: BEDOURIE AND MT ISA We made it to Bedourie before dark after travelling with a long procession of campers leaving The Big Red Bash. We’d heard about the Bedourie Camel and Pig Races so as we headed north we stopped off to go to the races and get out of the traffic. A lot…
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NOW: THE BIG RED BASH Track owners from everywhere were converging on Birdsville for the Owners’ Gathering at The Big Red Bash and we were meeting the team from Track to get the site ready and welcome fellow owners. First we needed a hot shower, a kangaroo pie and a bun rush for a loaf…
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NOW: FROM DAVENPORT RANGES NATIONAL PARK TO THE BIG RED BASH After a fresh-food top up in Katherine we headed down the Stuart Highway with a million grey nomads heading in both directions. When we stopped at Renner Springs we saw three mad people in amongst the nomads – two were on pushbikes and the…
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NOW: NITMILUK NATIONAL PARK A stop in Jabiru identified our starting and auxiliary batteries in the car were on the way out. We replaced the starting battery but they didn’t have an auxiliary the right size in Jabiru. In Katherine we were able to replace the second battery, restock the larder and visit a butcher.…
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NOW: COBOURG PENINSULA, GARIG GUNAK BARLU NATIONAL PARK – ARNHEM LAND An early start saw us over Cahills Crossing at 7.30am, two hours before high tide. This causeway crosses the East Alligator River and has a notorious reputation for eating cars and for its crocodiles that eat humans. We’d headed the warnings, crossed on the…
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NOW: KAKADU NATIONAL PARK On our last visit to Kakadu 23 years ago in the Commodore, we couldn’t get into Gunlom because the road was too rough for our sedan. This time the road was still corrugated gravel but far more accessible in the 4 wheel drive than the poor old Commodore. We did see…
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NOW: DALY RIVER AND LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK The top end had had a very long wet season so we’d headed up to Darwin hoping the roads and waterfalls would be open when we were ready to start travelling south and we were in luck. We couldn’t get to Douglas Hot Springs as the whole area…
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