Visiting Australia: Some hints, tips and general observations

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 …

Bonus Feature: A guided tour of Heidi or, as I like to call it, a Geidi

As you can probably tell from the title, James has had no input in this, he thinks that I am a crazy person. For our four avid readers, I thought that it would be useful to provide some insight in to the realities of life in Heidi. This way you will have a context when …

Crossing the border in to WA and what it takes to be a true Pommie – Timber Creek, Gregory National Park, Lake Argyll and Kununurra.

We were on the road surprisingly early from Adelaide River, given that we’d enjoyed the inn’s hospitality a bit more than we had intended to. Back on the Savannah Way we stopped in Katherine, ostensibly for some supplies but really because we wanted to pop in to our favourite Visitor Centre one last time. It …

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, …

Back to civilisation in Darwin

Arriving in Darwin late in the day, we were both struck by how strange it felt to be driving in to a city after spending most of our time in remote towns with buildings no higher than two storeys and sparsely populated landscapes. The Visitor Centre was our first port of call to help us …

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 …

Flitting with butterflies in Katherine Gorge and falling in love with waterfalls all over again

We had covered a huge distance in our first two weeks on the road and decided it was time to pitch up for a few days and use Katherine as a base to visit the surrounding area. Being the largest town for miles, Katherine has everything you need to restock, relax and generally get your …

Through Hell’s Gate to the Northern Territory – North West Queensland, Barroloolla, Daly Water and Mataranka

We left Lawn Hill, splatting flies unceremoniously against the windscreen, and headed back towards the Savannah Way in anticipation of a long day’s drive. With several routes available to us we naturally decided to take the slightly ropey looking 4x4 track. We were rewarded 40km later with a locked gate and were forced to return …

The search for Morning Glory, two teensy mechanical issues and all of the flies ever – Normanton, Karumba and Lawn Hill National Park

We survived our first night without power, and therefore without air-conditioning, quite comfortably. It did demonstrate to us, however, that our fridge can only last 5 hours without being plugged in, which is problematic for those people wishing not to eat rotten food and we made a mental note to call Apollo to arrange installment …