After 11 weeks travelling around Australia we do not claim to be experts but we have gleaned some knowledge that will be useful to those planning a trip, particularly if you are planning on camping / campervanning. The below are our observations, hints and tips as they came to us, so there is no particular … Continue reading Visiting Australia: Some hints, tips and general observations
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Finally eating fish and chips and a quick peek through Nature’s Window – Kalbarri & Kalbarri National Park
We were grateful to turn off the highway and head for the coast and Kalbarri, it had been a long and thoroughly uninteresting drive for Caro. It was slightly more interesting for James as the route brought us through the wheat growing areas, so he spent most of the time gazing out of the window … Continue reading Finally eating fish and chips and a quick peek through Nature’s Window – Kalbarri & Kalbarri National Park
Wading our way through crocodiles to the end of the Savannah Way – Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Tunnel Creek and Windjana Gorge National Parks and Broome
After a restful night in Halls Creek we set off early to explore a few of the local sites including China Wall; a strip of Quartzite which emerges from the ground as a natural wall at various heights and intervals all the way back to the Bungle Bungles.Our only other stop to look at the … Continue reading Wading our way through crocodiles to the end of the Savannah Way – Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, Tunnel Creek and Windjana Gorge National Parks and Broome
A tin mine, a feral pig and a meat raffle… Litchfield National Park and Adelaide River
We didn’t really have a plan of how long we would spend in Litchfield National Park and decided to leave Darwin in the early morning and just see how we got on. Caro ran in to James’s shower friend in the kitchen and he advised that the tin mine was well worth a visit and, … Continue reading A tin mine, a feral pig and a meat raffle… Litchfield National Park and Adelaide River
Kakadu National Park
We were both really looking forward to Kakadu as it is frequently heralded as one of the top things to do in Oz and we had had such a great experience in Katherine Gorge. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite rise to our high expectations. We are fully aware that we visited right at the end of … Continue reading Kakadu National Park
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