Now: The Kimberley – Wyndham to Home Valley As we drove into Wyndham we’d travelled all the way from Ceduna on the Southern Ocean to Wyndham on the northern edge of Western Australia and the Cambridge Gulf. On the way to Wyndham we stopped at The Grotto which was a deep rocky chasm with a…
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NOW: INTO WESTERN AUSTRALIA – THE BUNGLE BUNGLES AND KUNUNURRA. After booking online for the Kurrajong campground in Kununurra we headed south down the Great Northern Road past Turkey Creek to Purnululu National Park, home of the Bungle Bungles. The campsite had some shade and a base of cut spear grass which had dried out…
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NOW: BUCHANAN HIGHWAY TO WA BORDER After a one night visit To Katherine for a dentist and an obligatory stop at the Daly Waters Pub we called in to the ghost town of Newcastle Waters where all the old stock routes meet. We were surprised to find water on both sides of the road as…
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NOW: Davenport Range, Devils Marbles, Tennant Creek. Unseasonal rain north of Alice Springs made the Binns Track impassable so we had a turn on the tar of the Stuart Highway. Our lunch stop was at the restored Barrow Creek Telegraph Station, then on through Wycliffe Well and Wauchope to the Devils Marbles. The volcanic tors…
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NOW: ALICE SPRINGS It actually RAINED while we were in Alice Springs! While we were having breakfast at a trendy cafe in Todd Mall the Todd River flowed through town closing all the causeways and creating a great deal of excitement. Rain to the north had the river flowing through town but there was not…
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NOW: BINNS TRACK The road from Dalhousie Springs to the famous Mt Dare was rocky and slow going – almost as slow as some of the big climbs in the Victorian High Country and the roughest road we’ve travelled for a while. We passed Opossum Waterhole which held significance for the local Aboriginal people as…
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NOW: COOBER PEDY TO DALHOUSIE SPRINGS. We had a little run up the Stuart Highway from Glendambo to Coober Pedy. The car was very quiet on the smooth tar road, nothing shaking or rattling. We even had the radio on for a while! First stop in Coober Pedy was the Visitor Centre but ìt’s closed…
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NOW: Googs Track – Ceduna to Coober Pedy. After crossing from Kangaroo Island we headed north through Port Wakefield which was once an important cargo port. The mangroves and salt flats have taken over but lots of people come here to fish. Our fishing destination was Port Augusta where our nephew took us squid fishing…
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NOW: Kangaroo Island. With the GPS set to take us by ferry again, we crossed The Backstairs Passage from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw on Kangaroo Island. The staff at Sealink were very helpful when we booked our crossing. Including our first night’s accommodation at Penneshaw Caravan Park in our package gave us the best price…
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