Spent 4 days exploring Kakadu National Park. It's a massive area, 20,000 square kilometres which is divided into seven major regions. It's a difficult place to sum up - I think because it is so massive and so much of that area is just the same. To look at it, as with so much of Australia, you would never guess that a stupendously beautiful spot like Barramundi Gorge for example is less than 10 minutes drive off the main drag. Best to look at the pictures for th...

We have just spent 5 nights in the best caravan park in the Darwin area. Tumbling Down Waters is only 40 mins drive from Darwin, but light years ahead in hospitality and value for money. The price for a family unpowered site was 30 bucks, compared with the insultingly inflated 50-60 dollars required by parks only 20 kms up the highway. I salute the owners and hope they prosper. We used it as a base to visit Litchfield National Park, home of the most glorious s...

The drive from Alice Springs North is a long one. 1485km of the narrow single lane Sturt highway that stretches North to Darwin, skirting the Tanami Desert and Aboriginal lands of the Warumungu, Warlmanpa,Walpiri and Mudbura. Its not without its interesting moments, taking in a few well known spots such as the Devils Marbles (Karlwe Karlwe), Wycliffe Well ( sight of the most UFO sightings in Australia) and the famous Daly Waters Pub, home of the tree of thongs,...

Actually, this picture is of Katja Juta at sunrise, commonly known as the Olgas. Its a formation of enormous conglomerate rock mini mountains that surround a wonderful valley. In Indigenous law, its a place that only the men went in to and I felt quite uncomfortable walking through it. We spent four nights in total in Uluru, visiting the rock twice and marvelling at its shear enormity and presence. My sister, Cathy, told me the other day that I was incredibly ...