after a absolute killer of a journey (by the way if anyone reading this is thinking of travelling by road across Oz we urge you to reconsider) 16 hours in total, we arrived at Alice Springs in soarin heat and a state of tiredness we frustratingly wondered the streets looking for our hostel, our backpacks had never seemed so heavy. eventually we found it. wanted to go straight to bed we were met by the hostel bloke who wanted to know what trip we were doin an...

we got up early and went to the Katherine gorges our walk was approx 8km in total, to one of the gorges and a waterfall. after about half an hour we arrived at the gorge and wow it was wel worth it, it was beautiful. there was an aboroginal art work area near to the viewpoint so we had a wonder to have a look. after half an hour fooling around on rocks we noticed it was inaccessable as it was across the river and with the river overflowing because of th...

we travelled form darwin today to katherine. we decided agianst going to litchfield its gna be hammering it down with rain for the next week, so it wud be unpleasent n a waste of money. we both wanted to go but were getting agitated in darwin so we decided to elave and flog our free tour. we managed to get 40 bucks for it which we bought a lonly planet guide with. will coem in handy as its for auz and nz. katherine seems ok. going on a gorge walk 2moz (prob in t...

well.. it rained.. we did nout... and its meant to be like this all week. both going troppo and have decided best course of action is to get out of darwin. going south 2 katherine 2moz selling our free trip to the bloke in our dorm hopefully. we had curry last night and again for lunch today and yes we had the leftovers for tea tonight first time we are acctually bored.... stuck in our hostel. hopefully the bus journey 2moz will be ok. looking forward to ...

wel we do we start.. we met tony, our WWOOF host, Tony, in Darwin as arranged. His car was a wreck and it stunk of piss, he smoked constantly and make racist remarks. so it wasnt a good start. we got to his 'art gallery', which was nothing than sub standard paintings on wire fencing outside! beki stood in a massive dog poo, from one of the four mingin dogs. we had a tour of his paddock, it wasnt very nice but we had suffered worse so we were happy to stick i...