Hi all, There is a blog before this one from New Years eve before starting to read this one. Happy New Year to all!!!! 4th January 2008 Well we have now been away for over 7 months. Time for us has gone so quick!!! 4th of Jan 2008 and we were packed up heading in a plane to Alice Springs for a 7 day6 nights trip around Alice, Kings Canyon and Uluru (Ayers Rock). On this day we arrived at the hotel and had a wonder into town checking out some of the aboriganl s...

Ah hah we have survived the croc infested waters of the Northern Territory, the 40 degs heat. the 90% humidity, the bush camp with no toilets or showers, the fly infestation and we can now tell you all about our adventures.......... Day 1 - Kakadu National Park We started our day at 6:30 for our pick up and boarded our 4wd truck with 12 other people (5 of which left us half way thru the trip as they were on a 3 dayer only) and headed to Corroboree Billibong to ...

Hi Folks, It's Iain here and haven't Charlotte and I had some bad luck on our initial day in Darwin. Well the good news now is all is sweet. The airport phoned me last night and sent my backpack to me in a taxi. I no longer have to wear Charlotte's flowery board shorts, even though I was getting rather attached to them by the end. The good thing with all of this is that we both stayed calm throughout our experience. No backpack, Crap hostel but within a day al...

Well where do we start......... Firstly i forgot to say in the last blog that while we wre on our tree canopy tour Iain got roped into (egged on by me of course) to licking the bum of a green ant while it was still alive!!!! Apparently the Aboriginals used to do it as it has a really citrusy taste - which he can now vouch for - yum, yum!! We left Port Douglas yesterday and drove back to Cairns to get our flight to Darwin (via Brisbane) and we were dreading che...