We stayed in a free park on the side of the road last night with about 20 other vans of all sizes and varying mod cons. The road trains were very noisy and one decided to honk us, thank goodness they stopped about 10pm. Today has been interesting as the terrain and vegetation has changed throughout our journey. As you can tell from the photo today we are now in boab country and we have seen many majestic escarpments, views of different ranges all around us. This...

We left the Litchfield national park this morning (Sunday) and drove towards the Stuart highway stopping off at the magnetic termite mounds. It looked like acres of headstones facing the same way. They build their nests with the thinner sides facing north-south to keep them cooler. Further south at Rum Jungle we visited a butterfly park with cafe, accommodation, swimming pool, hand built waterfall and rock pool with yabbies and a snake skeleton, apparently the s...

Today we had concerns about Mick and Kathy as they did not turn up last night. We started looking for them this morning by checking other campsites. After checking the first one, Wangi, we thought while we are here Den would go for a swim in the rock pool at the base of Wangi falls. After that we were heading up a path to the cafe to have a coffee, when we got a whistle from Mick. They were watching us and we had no idea, so they found us rather than we found th...

Today we have travelled about 150 klms south-west of Darwin to Litchfield national park. There are many waterfalls and swimming holes around within a short drive and walk, some with crocodiles and some without. Kathy and mick will be joining us for two nights. Pretty hot here but the worst part is after having a cold shower drying yourself and then you start leaking and can't pull your clothes on. I haven't been sleeping well because of the humidity, it's been 2...

We had a pretty layback day today, did some mundane things like washing and shopping. Dennis went to get a battery replaced and had a coffee with Neil while I did the shopping. This afternoon it was too hot to do anything in the camper so we sat in the shade with a drink. Dennis worked on the car and then went for a swim in the pool. Tonight we went to the famous mindil beach markets could not believe the crowd and this happens twice a week in the dry season. Pe...