Ground Hog Day - Katherine NT - 1st September It is time to cover a lot of the ground that we have already done as we return to the West. As we are limited to the bitumen with our road bikes from Pine Creek all the way back to the turn off to Derby will be a repeat of roads we rode several weeks back about 2000km of Ground Hog Day. The road from Jabiru to Pine Creek had some outstanding scenery and with all the twisty roads we were in motorbike heaven. As we...

Kakadu National Park - Some said "Kakadon't" but we say "Kakado" 27th to 31st August - Jabiru NT. Before we left home some acquaintances and a few other people that we have met on the road have said that they found Kakadu to be uninteresting and they used the term "Kakadon't". We have learnt to ignore people who say things like that as we, with our interests usually find places people are negative about, very interesting. I think Kakadu is going to be one of...

Territory Wildlife Park and on to Mary River - 24th,25th & 26th August Although probably not the best time of year we headed out 50km to the Territory Wildlife Park. Being right at the end of the dry season we did not expect that it would look like the photos in the tourist brochures. We learnt from our mistake last year when we went to Karumba in the dry season and Trish had been telling me how green and swampy it was, all the snakes, cane toads and croc...

Darwin, NT -Interesting but I wouldn't want to live there! 20th - 24th August 2013 The title "Darwin, NT -Interesting but I wouldn't want to live there!" probably has a lot to do with the fact that my arms and legs have been severely bitten by sandflies and look a lot like the bomb craters left after Darwin was attacked by 188 Japanese aircraft back in 1942. It seemed strange getting ready to set up our tent in Darwin less than an hour after leaving our previo...

Batchelor & Litchfield National Park - 17th to 19th August The sun rises later up here and with the alarm set for 6:00am it didn't take long to realize that it was too dark to pack up. After a quick reset of the alarm to 6:30am there was time for a bit more sleep. Our aim lately has been to get on the road early before it gets too hot, so after the extra sleep and our usual casual pack up we were heading out of Katherine at 8:30 and relatively cool. We ha...