Farewell Darwin Well my time as an honary Territorian has come to an end as I depart the warmth of Darwin for cold of Adelaide. The beautiful blue skies, perfect sunsets, and the Territorry shuffle (it is too hot for people to pick up their feet I think) will be replaced with the wineries and Great Ocean Road. To live up here you have to have a special mentality you swap normal seasons for Wet and Dry. In the Dry the days are perfect and the nights balm...

Dear All Well I have just completed a mini trip from Darwin to Katherine. When I say mini it was still 1000kms driving but along the straight and deadly dull Stuart Highway. This highway divides Australia in half, stretching from Darwin in the North and Adelaide in the South. This is desolate driving. The road goes on for miles and miles and is bordered only by pandanas, scrubby eculypt and grass. A bend in the road is considered a major event and to c...

Smiling at Crocodiles Sorry to bug you but yet another amazing town and awesome trip. I am currently in tropical Darwin, and it is hot bloody hot. How hot, I hear you ask, well put it this way I am in public wearing a vest top, so it is really hot! Considering it is winter the temperature is a constant 32. The humidity is relatively low, and there should be no rain, but you guessed it Moyley bought a few tropical showers with her. Today there are a few ...

Sunrise Sunset and Swags Caroline and I are now in the Northern Territory back in Alice Springs after our 3 day camping safari to Uluru and KIngs Canyon. This is my first visit to Alice and part of the trip I had most looked forward to. I had a romantic notion of Alice all dusty roads and quaint little country houses. But it is a modern town with a Woolworths and a Coles and lots of Internet places - an absolute must of you have lots of backpackers desc...