Tennant Creek, Wauchope & Mt Isa - Wednesday 10th September Tennant Creek, Wauchope & Mt Isa Car Kilometers: 177,034 Distance Travelled: 1600km Total Distance Travelled: 8783km We set off from Katherine for a few more one night stops, the first being Tennant Creek.On the way we snap a few pictures of street signs in Elliott, and also stop at a curious pub in Daly Waters for a drink.It's busy with other tourists having a break on the way up from Ali...

Kakadu National Park 8th September 2008 Kakadu Car Kilometers: 175,434 Distance Travelled: 662km Total Distance Travelled: 7183km After a few days in Darwin, where we caught up on all the mundane things that we can't escape even when travelling the world, we were ready to head to Kakadu National Park.Kakadu National Park had been on our itinerary for a long time. It is classed as a highlight of Australia in the Lonely Planet (a sure sign of approval as y...

Darwin - Sunday 31st August Darwin Car Kilometers: 174,772 Distance Travelled: 771km Total Distance Travelled: 6521km During a quick stop in Katherine's town centre to pick up some groceries, we are again enchanted by the music that can be heard up and down the main street - it's coming from speakers in most of the lampposts, and is a mix of Country-and-Western, religious stuff and popular music... a bit like Wolverhampton Council's spooky town Christmas d...

Katherine 29/08/08 KatherineCar Kilometres: 174,001 Distance Travelled: 574km Total Distance Travelled: 5750km This time a slightly longer run of around 550km's with the same low scrub bush interspersed with some areas of tall thin trees and Boab Trees (wide trunk with small spindly branches on top - if you had drawn trees like this at school you would have been told it was wrong!), and craggy rock mounds. We also passed into the Northern Territories (our...