Left CC early again and headed towards the Queensland Border. Soon the road turned into a 4wd track, and didnt meet many cars along here! we had to cross alot of rivers but as they were shallow (being near the end of the dry season) we got out and walked across them to stretch our legs and cool down. we drove past more cows and desert and Aborignal Communities (that we didnt see but we told that they were there)and eventually crossed the border into QLD and out o...

Left Darwin early this morning on the trip across some of the remotest places in Australia. Headed south on the Stuart Highway and visted some of the places i went to on the way up to Darwin. This included Mataranka thermal pools and DAly waters pub. AfterDarwin we turned off and headed east to Queenland. Despite this road still being highway number one is had now gone down to a single road. From here we passed nothing but desert, cows, cattle farms and a few kan...

After a long long drive from Cooper Pedy we arrived in Yulara the headquaters for Uluru and Kata Tjuta national park. We were able to see Uluru as we were getting closer to the park. Before we chad Uluru in our view there was another rock called Mt Conner ofter dubbed Fooluru as look exactly like Uluru just not as high. Our guide/driver went to collect our national park tickets we breifly went around the cultural centre as we didnt want to miss the sunset. There ...

First day of work wasnt too bad. packing mangoes is harder than i imagined especially in the heat and humidity. There are lots of different sizes and havr to make sure they are all the same size mangoes in the box but not small enough that they rattle around and move in transport. we finshed early so we went to the springs for a swim. the mangoes are either first class or second class. The first class ones were often split in to export and domestic. We had a few ...

Left Darwin today with my friend Fran i met in Berri and 8 others to start work on a mango farm at Berry Springs. None of us knew what to expect, we felt lucky that it wa sonly a 40 minute drive to our farm. Berry Springs consists of two petrol stations, a wildllife park, a school and the actually springs. When we got to farm there were various tents and caravans next to the house and thought we would be sleeping in th...