17/12/08 Unfortunately we didn't have time to look round Alice, for the same reason as Tennant Creek - we had to press on with our journey, because of the sheer distance we had to cover and of having to be in Cairns by a certain day. We were going straight to Yulara, the nearest place to Uluru that you can stay overnight. This time we made only one stop, at Erldunda Roadhouse, which lies at the turnoff from the Stuart Highway (which we had been driving down for a...

16/12/08 We didn't have time to look round Tennant Creek properly as we had another massive distance to cover to get to Alice Springs, but after ringing home, we did go in briefly to refuel and get a couple of drinks for the journey. I spotted something I had to get a photo of though - a signpost with signs pointing to places within Australia, but also London, Fiji etc., with their distances in km as well! In contrary to expectations, I hadn't seen any of these i...

15/12/08 In the morning we had to press on to Tennant Creek, but before this we popped into Katherine to stock up on fuel and drinks for the journey, buy some kangeroo steak to have for dinner, go into the internet cafe/art gallery (where Dave burnt all our photos from India and Southeast Asia onto DVDs) and walk along the high bridge across Katherine River - a different one to the bridge I had walked to the day before. On this bridge, you could look over and see...

13/12/08 The start of our long journey south to Uluru! We stopped at Katherine for that night and the one after; the third largest town in Northern Territory after Darwin and Alice Springs. It was quite a small place, surrounded by forest. Like in Darwin, the only homeless people we saw were Aborigines. It was quite surreal to walk down the street, because Christmas songs and carols would suddenly ring out from loudspeakers on the street light poles, and this was...

10/12/08 After a morning in Darwin, where we caught up with emails and stocked up on supplies (and I got a sports t-shirt to replace the one that got 'lost' in Bangkok), off we drove to Kakadu! The only town in it is Jabiru, so we set up camp at the campsite in Kakadu Lodge. It has a great swimming pool, but quite a lot of flies which was annoying. 11/12/08 We planned to go to Ubirr today, which is a really famous Aboriginal rock art site, the art variously dati...