We farewelled Darwin and headed south to Batchelor which is the gateway to Litchfield National Park. There are many spectacular falls here and all are flowing all year round. We saw them in the dry season and they were pretty amazing, I can only imagine that they must be spectacular during the wet season. After entering the Litchfield National Park the first thing you notice are the huge termite mounds, they are enormous. We visited all the major falls inclu...

We checked into Darwin a day earlier than planned as both Warren and I needed to have our cars looked at due to issues and Warren also having a problem with their fridge not operating when not plugged into power. Our first day in Darwin was spent exploring the city area, some retail therapy for Jo-anne, although I wouldn't let her buy anything as we already have way too much. Next day Warren and I visited the WWII tunnels where they stored fuel during the war, ...

We arrived at the Cooinda campground in Kakadu. This campground or should I say resort, was luxury compared to our previous caravan parks. There were pools, bars, restaurants etc etc. That afternoon we did a small hike to a lookout. The next day we went to Maguk Falls, this was about 40klms from the campground and then about a 10klm drive down a corrugated road. We then walked along a creek bed, across rocks and over boulders for about 1klm. We arrived at the f...

Katherine, this is where we were rejoined with Lynette and Warren who had been off at the 3 day music festival in Birdsville. We will then travel together for the next 3 months. We spent the day setting up and restocking with food and water. Water is becoming the challenge. Fuel is easy to get everywhere, but water is not readily available and in a lot of places the water needs to be boiled before it is drinkable. Our van capacity is 200 litres, which lasts abou...

We left Daly Waters and headed north to Mataranka which is remote. Our original plan was to head 400klms east from Daly Waters to Lorella Springs in the gulf counry. Lorella Springs is hailed as one of the most remote areas of Australia if not the world. We had some road condition reports that indicated the last 130klms would take 4 to 5 hours to complete, therefore we opted to give it a miss as we were only planning on staying there for two nights Mataranka is ...