Not wanting to spend too long in the lower parts of QLD (because we can get back there relatively easily) we motored onto Bourke today, an easy 454kms down the Mitchell Hyw. Great devonshire tea at Wyandra and a really bazaar experience at Barringun. Thought we'd pick up something at Barringun for lunch so we waited patiently until we got there. There's only two places in Barringun, the pub and 

We set off this morning knowing that we'd have a long day in front of us but not thinking we'd be on the road for 9.5 hours. 700kms with a few stops for food and watering the horses, what a big day. Still don't really know why we did it..... It was certainly the day for wildlife though, kangaroos, pigs, eagles, a turtle, cattle, lizards. Sore bums all-round.. pies, chips and lollies got us through.

Sounds a bit like a cartoon or something (the title that is). Up early as we had to meet our coach out the front at 8am for our tour down to Lark Quarry. It was bloody hot overnight anyway so we were awake early as the sun rose. 31 deg's at 8am today. So for $250 you'd expect a nice form of transport and as morning tea was included, a cuppa tea and scones or something similar. Around the corner

We were determined to see the dinosaur attractions that we missed out on at our visit to this part of the country so we headed for Winton for another try. Heading on the road through Cloncurry and McKinlay was a pretty easy drive, but very pitchy with the car constantly wanting to follow the tracks left by the heavy mine trucks. I guess you've all heard of a movie called "Crocodile Dundee"....

Bacon and eggs for breakfast, Yum!! We (read the missus) wanted to do some more washing so we decided to hang around camp and get everything up to date this morning. Towels, sheets and all cloths are now clean, Yippee. Jason jammed his finger in the bathroom door pretty bad this morning, split it open, bruised it and it's really swallen (we rang the medical centre and they basically told us to

After a little sleep in through a very pleasent morning with temps in the teens. It's overcast today and trying hard to rain. We had a bit of rain overnight too. It's sprinkling now ........We went into town for a wander with all the mandatory things on the list, coffee for the oldies, cloths and jewellery shops for the girls, camping, fishing and outdoors for the boys all with one eye on the

Over the border today into QLD as we head for Mt Isa for a few days. A pretty uneventful day's drive of 450kms, we came into Mt Isa with the fuel light on for the last 10kms. A bit of a worry when you don't know the car that well to know when it stops!! As it turns out we had plenty of fuel, she only took 57 litres in the 70ltr tank. It's great to have normal fuel prices again, 128.9CPL.We

Up and about early again and on the road by 8:45am today. We were heading for Renner Springs but decided to go all the way to Barkly Homestead. You can make good distance out here, even when averaging 90km/h as we have been doing.The temp. outside the car was sitting at 38-39 degs as we headed across the Barkly Highway towards our destination. A pretty thirsty run across using 32 litres for 188kms

Another day of transporting ourselves southward, we went through to Daly Waters Pub today. A nice stop at the Pink Panther Pub at Larrima for lunch and a tour through their animal enclosures. Fish and chips for $7 a head, can't beat that in the middle of no-where!Daly Waters greated us with the mercury showing 37 Deg, but we were comforted by the relative humidity being down to 45% from the 75%

Another beautiful day in Kakadu for our departure. An early wake up saw us packed up and on the road by 8:30am with showers to freshen up before jumping in the car.Today sadly marks the start of our trip home. Still lots to do and see in the coming weeks so it's not total despair.Filled the tank at 178.9CPL, we ended up covering about 650kms inside Kakadu and that's on the road, there's

Another really hot and sticky day up here at Kakadu, the fan in the tent helped us out overnight again. We're off to the Nouralangie Area today to have a look through the Anbangbang Gallery of rock art and look at the billabong.It's all a short drive from our camp, back towards Jabiru about 20kms, and not far off the main road. There's lots of tourist buses around, but not that many people

Up early this morning to catch the 6:25am courtesy bus to the Yellow Waters Lagoon for the sunrise cruise. We had booked the 2 hour cruise followed by breakfast.There were two bus loads which translated to two boat loads of people for the cruises. The boats weren't full so we had plenty of room to move around for photo's etc. What a truely beautiful place!!! The bird life and animals were just

Talk about hot and sticky, last night didn't get below 27 deg's and the humidity was really high too (upwards of 65%). On top of this we had a drunk black fella making a nuisence of himself at closing time. Not much sleep for anyone.The locals are all talking about this being October weather and the start to an early "build up" to the wet season which they also say is coming early

Tried a new yellow light outside last night and it kept the bug's away heaps more than the normal white light, got to be happy with that purchase.Woke up to another great day to pack up and Jason got a ride on a trail bike around the camp grounds with the guys camped behind us. It got pretty hot early, 29 deg at 9am, with the humidity getting up there too. Off to the showers after pack up to cool

We'd heard along the way that there was a free water park not too far from our camp so we went to investigate this morning. Ended up staying all day....What a great place, three big water slides, a huge pool, a play area with water coming out of everywhere and plenty of shaded seating and grass. Lunch from the local pie shop and back to camp at about 3pm for happy hours (many of them - Sandy's

It was a pretty lazy morning as we'd booked into the 3pm jumping crocodile tour on the Adelaide River Queen. It gave us a chance to catch up a bit, tidy our camp and swim in the pools.We left the camp at about 1pm and headed to the "View to the Wetlands" visitors centre on the way. It was nice to step into the air conditioned building after the short walk from the carpark as it was getting

We'd heard about the wave pool in the CBD but couldn't find it yesterday so we thought we'd go back for a reccy run today. Found the bastard!!Spent the morning there to about 2pm riding the waves and catching a bit of sun. It was great to see the ocean again. The wave pool cost us $12 for the family.Everyone was hungry (strange thing that ... the girls are always bloody hungry!!!) so

Yesterday we found the other croc place in the CBD, crocodylus cove, so we decided to go there and have a look today. The Mindil Sunset Markets are also on this afternoon from 4pm to 9pm so we're heading to them after the cove. The cove has 3 levels with lots to see and do. Free parking in the CBD on Sunday's was a good find too.They have many big crocs in their enclosures and with reptiles

Off to the Crocodylus Park today to see the crocs and farm animals. A great place to visit and spend some time. Sandy fed a 5.5 mtr croc in the breading pens and we saw many others fed. The place is an active croc farm so they breed and fatten up crocs for their meat and skins as well as research their habits and dietary needs. Jason was very excited to see an Osterich as he'd been calling all

After a hot and very still night, we woke to another beautiful day for breakfast in the morning sun. 26 deg's at 8:20am and not a cloud in the sky. I can see why all these old farts head north in the winter to escape the cold. Our destination, Howard Springs, is about 30kms south of Darwin so its a pretty easy drive today. We headed for the township of Adelaide River for lunch where we had lunch