Monthly Archives: June 2014

With only 80kms to Lorella we took our time packing up. We stopped at Southern Lost City on the way and decided to do the walk through the formations. It was quite pleasant as it was not to hot and … Continue reading →

From Elsey we headed on to the Roper Hwy for our next week in the Gulf country. Terry had picked a campsite called Butterfly Springs as it was the only campsite in Limmen National Park with a safe swimming hole. … Continue reading →

Elsy National Park is a former cattle station and is famous as the setting to the book “We of the Never Never” and the film location based on the book. There is a natural thermal spring near the homestead that … Continue reading →

From Gunlom we headed south and called in at Edith Falls, this was going to be our camp before we decided to visit Gunlom, it is a very picturesque pool with a small but high volume water fall. Beautiful shaded campgrounds. I … Continue reading →

The falls at Gunlom were not very spectacular as there wasn’t a lot of water coming over them. There was a very steep, quite difficult climb to get to the top of the falls so Terry decided to do it. … Continue reading →

We hadn’t originally intended to go to Kakadu National Park because it involved a fair amount of back tracking but some people we spoke to at Katherine had highly recommended Gunlom Falls. On the way we stopped at Pine Creek … Continue reading →

Today we needed to catch up on some washing so decided to go down to the waterfront after lunch to spend some time in the wave pool before going on our sunset dinner cruise. After about an hour in the … Continue reading →

Today we had to drop the car off to be serviced so we caught the bus into town. Once again we went walking to take in the sights we missed yesterday. We stopped at the tree of knowledge which is … Continue reading →

We drove into Darwin and found a parking spot right in front of the ruins of the old town hall. We found a place for lunch and then went for a walk down to the waterfront. There is a wave … Continue reading →

Time to move on and head to the big smoke (actually Darwin quite small as cities go). We arrived just on lunch time but our first stop was a battery shop, the second battery in the trailer had died and … Continue reading →