We've been in Darwin for almost 2 weeks now - the time is flying by! Our friends, Garry & Helen Cook and their 4 children have generously welcomed us into their home while we are here and have given us a lovely room to stay in while we cleaned up the car and caravan. Unfortunately, we missed out on seeing Mum & Dad due to the volcano ash from Indonesia causing all the flights to be disrupted - so that was very sad :( We were still able to spend some time...

Finally back on the 'black-top' and heading north to the Top End! Our first stop to reminisce was Mataranka Homestead Hot Springs. Last time we were here in 1998 it was over-run with flying foxes which had destroyed the natural vegetation and contaminated the thermal springs. However, they seem to have found ways to control the mammals so it was a welcome relief to soak in the beautiful, clear warm waters of the springs. We decided to stay the night as the park w...

Limmen National Park is a remote area officially declared as a national park in 2012, so it is relatively new for visitors to explore. The road through the park is a mixture of rough dirt track with numerous creek crossings and washouts - causing us to lose our front number plate! Our first campsite was Lorella Springs, which is now quite familiar to a lot of people due to the 'All 4 Adventure' TV show which promoted it recently. It's a lovely wilderness camp wh...

Continuing on from Lawn Hill, we drove to Kingfisher Camp via a picturesque dirt track which meandered through cattle properties (meaning opening and closing numerous gates), creek crossings and lots of 'bull dust'! Kingfisher Camp is a lovely grassy, shady campsite on Bowthorn Station by the Nicholson River, and we initially had the whole place to ourselves! Alf did a bit of fishing and caught an impressive sized garfish, while I continued my role as the croc lo...

Lawn Hill National Park, also known as Boodjamulla has been a wonderful oasis to spend a few days. We have been camped right in the national park so that we could be close to the action. There are only 20 spots, however it's only about half full, so very peaceful. We've been on a few different walks and canoed up the middle gorge to Indarra Falls, which is an amazing pool area with 3-4 little waterfalls cascading over the 'tufa', which are the type of rock forma...