Lawn Hill After driving back through Borrorloola we had another long drive to Hell’s Gate, a sinister sounding place, and once upon a time it was, now it’s a beautiful roadhouse with GRASS!! We were so delighted to be able to walk around barefoot on grass and the boys had the run of the place so played footy all afternoon. We enjoyed the company of one of the workers, who looked a bit like Costa from Gardening Australia, as we yarned over a couple of afterno...

Another long drive had us heading to Borroloola, stopping at Cape Crawford for lunch. We grabbed a few groceries in Borroloola and drove out to the King Ash Bay fishing camp. We set up alongside the beautiful river with enough time to have a fish from the high bank and watch the sun set. The boys caught a catfish each. They were hoping for a Barra of course but I think they just enjoyed catching anything. Next day we woke to the picturesque river and the boys en...

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!!”  ...

It was bittersweet to be leaving Kakadu but we were all excited to be heading to Darwin. We got to the outskirts about lunchtime and ate at the “Windows to the Wetlands”, a fantastic, free, hands-on, interactive area all about the animals and land in the north. We left there to head to the Adelaide River to go on a croc jumping cruise. We went with the same company as before as it was small and personal. We enjoyed it very much, it was both exciting and ter...