Day 19. Early on the Highway 1 for 400km north to the turnoff to notoriously rough Gibb River Road heading west. Bitumen to the turnoff to El Questro Station and then battled the corrugations down across the mighty Pentecost River, only 1 foot deep but wide and rocky, stopping for 2 nights at Home Valley Station. Found a nice campsite on the green station lawns and under the trees. Marvelled at the massive investment of government funding to develop this old cat...

Day 18. Bacon and eggs for breakfast by the campfire at Negri River, then onto the Duncan Road again south 300 km to explore. We passed through aboriginal land to stop at the old Ord River Homestead ruins. Ross worked out of here in the mid 1960s when it was a thriving Vesteys cattle station. A visit to the old cemetery showed an old headstone of Tudor Shadforth killed by blacks in 1890 aged 27. From the old homestead we could see distant views of the magnificen...

Day 17. Up early as Max is taking us fishing for catfish on Lake Argyle. Down to the lake on an old bull catchers jeep and onto a modern fishing vessel all 5 of us. The trip down the creek to the lake just amazing with so much bird life amongst the dead trees in the water - brolgas, white egrets, pelicans, ducks of all types, jabiru, ibis, terns, magpie geese, as well as freshwater crocodiles. Max was a real NT character and took us to his favourite fishing spot...

Day 16. Nice drive long Highway 1 towards Kunnunurra. On the way our we visited the Gregory Boab Tree inscribed by the Gregory Expedition in 1855 and up to the lookout to view the mighty Victoria River of over 800km. A tribute to the Nacharoos who defended northern Australia in WW2 as our northern commandos. Fished the Victoria River at Policemans Point but no luck. tried further downstream under the Bradshaw Bridge and caught 2 black bream on lures. A truckie fr...

Day 14 & 15. Staying in small town of Timber Creek for 2 nights. A rest day and next day we drove 50k into the Gregory National Park to old Bullita Homestead on the East Baines River and back to Timber Creek. Bullita was once a working cattle station attached to the Humbert River Station. The old stockyards depict how cattle were mustered, sorted and transported during the boom period 1950-60 employing lots of aboriginal stockmen. Walked the old homestead, me...