The next morning we awoke to bird noises and opened the van to see about 20 Gallar parrots (grey with a pretty pink head) and some noisy jackdaw type birds, and some huge grouse all next to the van. We had breakfast watching them. We then went to the Trezkin cave. A beautiful limestone cave with great formations and even some little friendly bats. However at the entrance there were several St. John's Cross spiders round the steps which apparently bite so your ha...

We set off for the outback. The rainforest and rain was left for a dry, arid, red earthed landscape with termite mounds all over. The road soon lost its asphalt and we were soon worried for the van. The drive was really cool, a true outback Australia. As we approached Chillagoe and the sun lowered Claire spotted a number of Wallabies by the road. It was really exciting to see them so early on into our trip, just what we had hoped for. We arrived in Chillagoe, a p...