Amazing to drive for two days and see nothing - when I say nothing, I mean NOTHING. We left Tom Price and drove 80 km to Parrabadoo. Another mining town - smaller than Tom Price. It has an interesting sculpture as you drive into it. This was a venture which the town people were invited to contribute. It's called Resilience. Made to represent the mining trucks, the minerals extracted and the values of the town. Now drive another 210 km seeing about three cars, l...

Such a wonderful time in Broome. Such quality time with Melinda and Eddie. We took a tour to Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek. It was a long day but we all thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a great taste of the Kimberley’s for our visitors. There was plenty of walking, eating and drinking plus laying around the pool which was quite wonderful. While we were in Broome it was the Shinju Matsuri festival - festival of the pearl. Plenty of things on offer a...

Our introduction to Darwin was fairly relaxed. Four nights at Discovery Park at Winellie. Nights were hot and days were hotter. Thank goodness for air conditioning. David picked up the cover for the air conditioner which we had ordered when we were in Mount Isa. Days were spent by the pool and watching the aerial displays put on by the Airforce operation Pitch Black. Nights were trying to hear yourself think over the jets taking off and landing. W...

Mount Isa to Darwin We only travelled 52 km out of Mount Isa due to the lateness of leaving with our new tyres. There is a free camp at WWII Memorial where they could fit a couple of hundreds vans etc. it’s huge. Thankfully there were no near that many the night we stayed. Very flat and plenty of places to have a fire pit. Now if only we had some wood. Never mind. Next time. Further along the Barkly Highway or The Overlander Way as it’s also ...

After we left Croydon, The Savannah Way improved greatly and it was 2 lanes wide all the way to Normanton.33km west of Normanton is Camp 119 - the most northern camp that explorers Burke and Wills recorded on their ill fated exploration trek from Melbourne to The Gulf in 1861. David had finished Peter Fitzsimons’ book “Burke and Wills” and was fairly knowledgeable on the subject. It was a great learning experience and I just can’t believe their optimis...