So in searching for the sun and Robbie Fowler, I was 50% successful! Left Cairns at 7am an got on the bus. Well smart it was too! Leather seats, loads of leg room and air con. Result. Chose to use this company (Oz Experience) rather than greyhound, which is similar to National Express in that its takes you from A to B but is full of sleeping pensioners. Oz Experience is for the younger mob, and they also stop off to let you see places you wouldn't normally go. ...

What a place! As they would say in South Australia… its heaps good! The flight here from Darwin was, erm, interesting! Its only a 2 and a half hour flight yet for some reason Qantas felt it necessary for us to stop off at Gove airport which is in Arnhem Land (an area owned by the indigenous). Normally your only allowed in with a permit, although we didn't need one and we was free to spend half hour at the airport. Which was 25 mins too long as a trip past the ...

(Ive been kind to you and split up the entries as im aware I prattle on and they are long. Change the date at the top of the blog posts tab under Darwin if you want the previous days!) Day6Onto the penultimate day and start of the final 'mini trip' - a 2day overnight stay in Kakadu National Park. Our guide Karl picked us up (absolutely mental he was. Definitely a crouton short of a caesar. Well alright though.) and took us to an Aboriginal community. We pulled...

Day3Dry day!Thank god! This was what I was expecting of the outback.. ridiculous heat and humidity, with billions of flies attacking your face. Get in! We got a lie in today too.. up at 5am to meet the rest of the group. There was 22 of us, I wont go into nationalities but I was the only Englishman! Flying the flag. The plan for the day was to start the 1,500km trek to Darwin with multiple stop offs, and that's what we did - just! Early on in the trek we had t...

So arriving in the Northern Territory I was expecting 40 degree heat. Nope! Oddly its wet season here in the summer and dry season in winter, so I was expecting to see some rain, but what I got was quite a bit! Arrived in Alice Springs in the afternoon and in the pouring rain took the 10 min walk into the centre for a look about. I'd been warned its a bit rough and a tiny place (its main purpose being the starting and/or finishing point of the outback). Yep they...