Roads Less Travelled

We left Kununurra and headed North to the turn off onto the Gibb River Road. This road will be sealed in the next few years but right now it still remains a challenge as the creek crossings tend to cut gutters into the ground, the corrugations can be bone jarring and the stones in places…

Arrived in Kununurra for four days and booked into a nice camp site with a lovely pool alongside the lake. It’s time to sort out the last modifications to the van and stock up with fuel etc before driving on to the Gibb River Road. We visited the Aboriginal Arts Centre where they have some…

Back to Katherine for some essential supplies and onward to Lake Argyle. Met up with Gabby and Pete and off we set for Lake Argyle. Its a long drive and the temps are now 43 deg and the cars are working hard in the heat. Made it to Timber Creek in the late afternoon with…

Started the day with a swim in the Katherine hot springs. Just bloody awesome. Off to our favourite pop up cafe for brekkie and a coffee. Then a panicked pack up as we had to be out bu 10am. Did some essential shopping and then off to Nitmiluk National Park where we had a powered…

Set off early and stopped at Daly Waters Pub. We were only about 90km out but it still took us about 1.5 hours. Love the quirkiness of the area and the people, all 15 of them. Ordered brekkie from a foreign backpacker behind the counter who is working her way around oz. Big demand for…

We checked out of the homestead and the guesses on the bill by ET were almost spot on. I reckon that every time I snuck off to buy a beer or something she did a mental calculation. Actually the only time we really bought any drinks was at happy hour as everything is enormously expensive.…

We finally got our early start and headed off to Nanny’s Retreat. En route we saw a few wallabies and also a family of four wild pigs. Mum, Dad and two very small babies.Roads were very rough with long stretches of deep sand, bull dust, rocky sections and corrugations. Oh joy! Plenty of challenges just…

Today was meant to be an early start as we had a long drive in the bush of about 80km return. It was hot and we woke up to 25 deg and a lot of humidity. We had had a real troppo night. We ended up spraying each other with water to try and cool…

Collected info for the day from the homestead and then signed ourselves out with expected return date. A simple system that alerts the staff should anyone not return to then send out a search party. Todays first stop is teardrop falls with some other sites on the return journey. There were plenty of dry and…

Left Heartbreak Hotel and headed to our first real big dirt road of the trip. The graders were working on the road which meant that in parts only half of it was available. It went from good to bad and back to good. We had lots of dry creek crossings and bull dust on quite…