We set off from Uluru prepared for the 5 day drive of 3000 kilometres to Cairns. We were not looking forward to it, but knew that once we reached the East coast there was not much driving to be done. The drive was pretty uneventful, staying at free rest areas all the way, which meant that Matthew could get his teeth into cooking on open fires! The scenery was really bare and a bitboaring really until we reached Queensland. As we were heading to the North of Queen...

Week 6 and 7 12 Hours of driving and 903 Kilometres after leaving Daly Waters we arrived in Alice Springs. The journey had included a few free nights camping and a short stop at a place called Devil's Marbles. We saw a sign for it and followed a side road to a parking area. It is basically enourmous piles of granite boulders some as big as houses stacked on top of each other, some looking very precariously balanced. They are formed because all other rock around ...

Week 3 After cape range national park we headed to Broome, this took around 3 days of driving at a steady pace so when we arrived we just wanted to relax for a few days, so that is what we did. On our first day we headed to cable beach. This is in the top 5 beaches in the world and when we got there we could see why. It is just 22 kilometres of white sand and really blue sea. Just what we wanted. We spent the day swimming, reading and generally chilling ou...

Week 4 and 5 After using up all our fruit and veg to pass the quarentine border we arrived in Keep River National Park in Northern Territory and had to turn our clocks forward by 90 mins, so strange when its all the same country! Immidiately we could see the difference in the scenery. The trees were taller and some were huge, bigger than i have ever seen before, there were also some really wierd shaped trees too, they just looked swollen, it made a nice change. ...

We arrived in Perth airport and was immidiatley met by sniffer dogs, they are really strict when entering the country and the dogs check everyone on the plane and then people's bags to see if anyone is bringing in any friut/veg/wood of anything that could contain flies etc. We got asked about 5 times if we were carrying anything, had to complete a card and sign it and then our bags were scanned on the way out of the airport. We felt guilty for carrying a bit of...