18/9/21 - 21/9/21Our journey southbound continued on for another 303km to Banka Banka Station, which is 100km north of Tennant Creek and is a working cattle station. The original homestead is used as a bar for happy hour for all of the tourist. Here we caught up with Ray & Pam (our fellow 'Breakdowners') and enjoyed happy hour with them, so didn't get to the bar for a drink. Past Tennant Creek we stopped at the Karlu Karlu / Devils Marbles Conversation Reser...

2/9/21 - 17/9/21Life is always interesting - we are always learning…….Lifes new lesson to 'the left over Breakdowners' ANT's…….yes ANT's…… in particular Ginger Ant's. Ray & Pam's air conditioner had stopped last Sunday night when we were out at Scott & Michele's for dinner. Out in search Monday morning for someone to repair the AC but to no avail. The week's daily temperature has been hot 37 degrees daily with ove...

26/7/21 - 2/9/21WOW…… it's been our longest gap between our blog posts. Where o' where have we been????After leaving Darwin we stopped for the night at Purple Mango Café & Brewery, out at Marrakai, on the way to Kakadu NP. We arrived at lunchtime, set up DABUS before heading to the café for a delicious wood fired pizza and tasting paddle. Kylie & Adam, the new owners, invited us back for dinner $10 all you can eat, so we got to...

Darwin - Green AcresSaturday 12/6/21 - Monday 26/7/21 During our six week stay with our good friends at "Green Acres" we met up and camped with three other local Mornington Peninsula couples, whom we knew and had camped with previously. We all enjoyed communal dinners either at a Chinese Restaurant, the 2 x Rump steak dinners for $30 at the local Coolalinga Tavern, Green Acre cook ups such as roast dinners, mud crab dinners, pizza nights, seafood night...

Friday 4/6/21 - Saturday 12/6/21 Thirteen kilometres on from Camooweal we hit the Northern Territory border, thank god we had organized our permits as police were on patrol checking permits. DABUS got called through and we were first in a queue, our permits checked and then our number plate photographed. NT here we come. As we knew we were going to be doing longer driving days, we went from listening to podcast and music to an audio book. This first day driving ...