Three Ways is where those going to SA via Alice Springs and Coober Pedy head south and those heading twoards Townsville head east. It is necessary to put Tennant Creek in the title as it did not recognise Three ways and also we needed the map to give a fairly accurate indication of where we are and where we are going. As you can tell we are now where Internet acess and mobile phones are very accessible so taking advantage. ( Barkley Roadhouse) We have the NBN in...

We left lake argyle as planned on Monday 31st July and after two days free camping we stopped in Katherine on Wednesday to do some shopping at Woolworths. The photo for this blog is what some of the road trains up here are like, especially when you are near a mining area. They aare so big, long and seem to fly along.

15th August We arrived at Alice Springs on the 13th August and so far have done very little to report very boring to say the least. As we move south the weather is quite cool, particularly in Alice Springs where the nights were extremely cold - down to 0 and -1. The electric blanket and heater were working overtime. Free camped last night and arrived at Coober Pedy today. The weather is is very warm. We quite forgot how much like a lunar landscape it looks here f...

We left Katherine, on Sunday after several days at The Low level Caravan Park and stopped the night at Dunmarra on our 3482km trip home. Monday night we stopped at a place called Banka Banka, which has quite an interesting history. This Cattle station is 100 km north of Tennant Creek and was the first operational pastoral station established in the Northern Territory. The most successful station owners,Philip & Mary Ward ran the station from 1941 to 1970. Dur...

Thursday 23rd July After stocking up with food supplies and filling up with diesel we left Cloncurry and headed along the Barkly Highway to travel the 757kms beween Cloncurry and Three Ways Roadhouse (Three Ways is the intersection between the Barkley highway and the southern and northern sections of the Sturt highway) The only large town between is Mount Isa, 121kms from Cloncurry. The scenery between Cloncurry and Mount Isa is just beautiful and looks as though...