On arrival back to Howard Springs after our trip to Dundee Beach and Litchfield NP, we met up with Keith & Wendy's grandson, Zander and his girlfriend Lily. Two other visitors had arrived, Ian & Danielle from Rye. After nearly six weeks in Darwin it was time to move on. Ian & Danielle had already been at the Daly River for about a week and we decided to catch up with them and go fishing. Keith & Wendy decided to join us and take Banjo on his firs...

It's been over a month since the previous blog entry. We are still staying at Howard Springs with Keith and Wendy. During the time we have been here we have enjoyed: Supercars the weekend of 16th - 18th June Botanical Gardens Freds Pass, Palmerston, Mindil and Nightcliff Markets Speedway Dinner at the Casino, Darwin River Pub NT Day down at Lee Point Beach Lunch at Dundee Beach, caught up with Pauline, her son and grandchildren. A night beside the beaut...

On Wednesday 31st May we left Camooweal and drove an easy 400 km drive, always helps with a good tailwind. Good roads and no road kill for a change. We stopped the night at a tower 30km east of Threeways. Great camp site for the night with a fantastic sunset. Very windy here at the moment but we positioned DABUS so we could light a fire and put some potatoes and sweet potatoes in the coals to have with our veal schnitzel. The following day we drove 370km with an...

Sunday 12th June we arrived back into Darwin just after 5am....... After breakfast Keith came out the airport to pick us up. On arrival back to Keith and Wendy's place in Howard Springs we crashed into the bus to catch up on Zzzzzzzz, as not much sleep was had on the flight back. We woke in time for lunch, mud crabs.....yum...and met Rob (Coffs Habour) and his daughter Erin (Rye). Wendy, Rob & Erin went off to the local pub to see a band. We unpacked and Wen...

On leaving Alice Springs we stopped the night at Conners Well, 80km north of Alice.The next morning we started our day in shorts and singlets as the weather has certainly warmed up. The communication has improved up this way since last year. We kept seeing these phone signal signs but as we would drive past our phones showed no reception, so we decided to stop and check one out. You have to place your mobile phone on a stand, make your call and put phone on speak...