Another big driving day ahead- 780km ThreeWays to Cloncurry which has been reduced from trying to get all the way to Winton due largely to not really getting to sleep until the wind finally died down at 5am. We shouted ourselves brekky at the roadhouse to help wake us up and Matty attempted the truckie’s big brekky which broke him even combined with Tom’s assistance! We took a left turn out of the roadhouse and headed east towards QLD..... straight into a he...

We FaceTimed big Stu this morning for his birthday before setting out for a monster day driving from Pine Creek to Three Ways about 700km, glad we didn’t stop at Gonlom to have extra dirt rd drive on top. Fuel stop at Katherine on way to Bitter Springs, just before Mataranka (of ‘We of the Never Never’ fame). We weren’t there hugely late but there were people everywhere already even though Bitter Springs is supposed to be the quieter of the two. We had r...

After our last still 26deg night of restless sleep listening to my whistling kites in the distance we faced very humid hot packup for our last day in Kakadu. We headed to Maguk Gorge first on our way to Gonlom. A relatively easy walk in compared to yesterday with a bit of clambering over rocks at the end but not too bad. Cam eyeing off the croc management buoys and satisfied himself that the teeth marks were only freshies so he could swim feeling safe! Walking ri...

We woke after a slightly cooler but no less buzzy night to Matt’s phone alarm going off at 5:30, unfortunately for our neighbours we couldn’t find it for a whole minute.....oopsie. The sunrise cruise actually consisted of four large barges so there were heaps of peeps waiting to get on at the pier. The safety talk was hilarious with our guide assuring us nothing would happen but he had to show us the lifejacket procedure anyways- mentioning the greatest benef...

Phew, a hot sleepless night leant itself to a slower morning, got a bit of schoolwork done before our campsite was in full sun and then headed out to look at some rock art at Nourlangie. This area was a refuge in the wet season due to lots of large overhangs for shelter. A lot of the artwork was on the ‘ceilings’ of these shelters and quite well preserved. Maybe more recent but this was certainly more sophisticated art than we’d seen before. Interesting to ...