Berry Springs, Litchfield and Nitmiluk National Parks Leaving Darwin I journeyed south to Berry Springs where I went to the territory wildlife park. I saw the amazing free flight birdshow, then wandered through the park and saw dingoes, stingrays, crocs, barra and turtles. I then went to the spring at BerrySprings to cool off before driving a short distance into Litchfield NP. In Litchfield I saw the magnetic teite mounds which all face north-south and the cath...

Darwin is the smallest capital city in Australia but I think the best. I spent a week in Darwin after the Kakadu trip and saw many of the free sites including the art gallery and museum, Fanny Bay Gaol, the botanic gardens and East Arm Point. There is a lot of history in Darwin going back to Cyclone Tracey and the WW2 before that. The city has been bombed and flattened and then rebuilt multiple times but it still maintains some of the historic buildings and a cit...

Kakadu NP aka Gagadu I decided to go on a tour of Kakadu to take a break from driving and also experience some of the 4WD only accessible places that unfortunately the little Yaris wouldn't handle. So my trip started nice and early on Saturday morning where I had to pack up my campsite and leave my car in the caravan park and be ready at 7am. The truck came and I was the last to be picked up so it was already full of 14 other travellers and Brad the guide and dr...

Heading North Leaving Central Australia I was excited to be travelling north to the warm weather. From the West McDonnell Ranges I drove to Alice Springs and stocked and fueled up. The first day I drove about 450kms to Wycliffe Well, I stopped in at the caravan park which is really the only thing there and set up my OzTent and before it was dark there were 2 others, they must multiply. This was also the first night I was able to sleep with just my sleeping bag, ...

West McDonnell Ranges Leaving Alice Springs I headed west to the West McDonnell Ranges. The first stop I made was John Flynn's memorial, which was a large round boulder on a plinth with a plaque. After visiting the RFD museum I was interested in seeing the grave of the man who started this wonderful initiative, but when I got to the memorial the thing I found more interesting was that the round boulder that was placed on top of John Flynn's memorial. It was orig...