As the sign says on arrival, welcome to paradise! A 1 million acre privately owned NT wilderness retreat, it was indeed, very special. Our first afternoon we spent exploring and traversing the 4WD tracks to a couple of hot springs, however, we didn’t swim. Once back at the main campground we swam in warm spring near the Homestead, it was divine, so blissfully relaxing. And again, we had it to ourselves. Afterwards, we had a drink at the bar and chatted to the...

Leaving Darwin we had a huge drive ahead of us, aiming to get to Roper Bar for the night, so we decided to use the hours to do some school work, our blogs and listen to an audiobook, The Maze Runner. We turned left at Mataranka and hit the dirt! It was RED and ROUGH!!! We spoke on the CB to a car and van coming the other way and they had nothing good to say, lol, they said it was the “worst road in Australia” and we should “definitely turn around!!”  ...