Gidday readers After refuelling the van at Three Ways roadhouse we hit the road heading East for the town of Camooweal 457 k/m's away and crossed the boarder into Queensland. The road was mostly very straight through bushy country for about 300 k/m's then wide open flat plains where it looked like you could see forever and was the most distance we had covered in one day so far. Camp was at a free campsite on the edge of town beside a long shady billabong where t...

Hi all Our next overnight camp after leaving Darwin was a newly opened camp site on a farm 5kms out of Katherine. For $15 you pick a shady tree to park under with a close drinking water tap that not only is great to drink and fill up your tanks from but also your allowed to wash the van with too. Now that's rare indeed and our very dirty old van just loved it. There is a organised 5pm happy hour and we ended up sitting beside a lovely couple from Blenheim who h...

Hello again Well the last day in Darwin was very full on starting with the air show open day at 9am. The various nations involved had their own tent stalls set up giving away lots of free stuff as well as tours of their own aircraft. The big line up of F18 jets looked awesome and the size of the supply carrying air craft was mind boggling. There was lots of action displays and even the Kiwis did a crowd pleasing Haka. Next we headed into town to meet up with on...

Greetings from a very hot Darwin Well it did not take long to realise that there was something special going on in Darwin by the unbelievable noise from above. It's a 2 yearly event called operation Pitch Black 2016 (you look it up on the net) where the Australian Airforce and 10 other nations including the USA, Germany, Singapore, Canada, Thailand and others get together and play war games involving 115 of the latest type of aircraft over a two week period. Ou...

Hello again After another good days driving through more very hot and dry country it was nice to arrive at our next camp at Timber Creek. This small place consisted of only a fuel station / shop and a pub but with a great camping ground behind where you find your own spot and have use of all the facilities on a unpowered site for just $5. We had a great night in calm hot conditions being entertained by the odd kangaroo and native birds from the lush bush surroun...