After brekky we hit the highway west towards the Western Australia border. Before we started out today we asked our trusty and friendly GPS, Mick, to tell us how far we now were from Perth. He informed us that we had 3666 kilometres to cover to get there and that if we drove non stop it would take us 38 hours and 58 minutes to get there! Still a hell of a way to go then. We're definitely going to be taking more than 38 hours to do this. Our destination today was ...

After waking up and noticing thankfully that we hadn't been eaten by the crocs we had our brekky. After this we hit the road. Kakadu National Park wasn't too far from here. We had been in two minds as to whether we Kakadid or Kakadidn't! We decided against Kakadu. It sounded like it was going to be much too touristy for us and possibly a lot like Litchfield National Park which simply hadn't done it for us. Also there was quite a steep park fee to get into Kakadu ...

After brekky we left the Darwin Free Spirit Resort which should have more appropriately been called the Darwin Mind Controlled Sheep Resort! We had enjoyed visiting Darwin. It's a wonderful laid back albeit mad hot place but we were glad to get away from the caravan park. We went to Coles on the way out of the city to stock up. Whilst in the supermarket looking at the sausages and desperately trying to find some that didn't contain sugar a little old lady sidled ...

We got up late and had a very lazy morning. After lunch we went and got the bus into the city. Darwin isn't a massive city compared with other state capitals and has a population of only about 75,000. By going into Darwin I have now been to every state and territory capital in Australia. Jay though has still got to see Perth before she has done every one. I'm saving the best one till last for her! Darwin city centre is very compact and was easy to navigate. It wa...

After brekky we hit the highway North to Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory right at the top end of Australia. It was just under 100 kilometres from here. Darwin is the furthest north we can go on our travels. We needed to go shopping today and so we went to a big shopping mall in Casuarina, a suburb of Darwin. We'd had the air con on all the way up and when we stopped and got out the heat hit us like opening an oven door. It was stupidly hot here, muc...