The walk at Ubirr really stayed with us. Passing the rock art and shelters gave us a sense of how people had lived here for thousands of years. Then we climbed up through the rocks and watched the sun set over the vast grasslands. From…
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Darwin was a change of pace after Litchfield: market laksa, some museum wandering, time in the gardens and another very good sunset. Shan's bowl of laksa was nearly as colourful as her shirt. It made a satisfying start to a set of city stops, with…
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We really enjoyed Litchfield. It gave us waterfalls and swimming spots, but also a collection of shapes in the landscape that were worth a stop in their own right. The magnetic termite mounds were first: narrow structures lined up in a remarkably consistent direction. Their…
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Judbarra / Gregory National Park was our first national park in the Northern Territory, and it felt familiar in an elusive way. There were echoes of the Kimberley in the rock and vegetation, with enough differences to keep making us stop and look again. The…
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The Duncan Road was a substantial stretch of remote country between Halls Creek and the Victoria Highway. We left with the fuel stops a long way apart and soon found that traffic was too. At some of our breaks there was almost no sound: hardly…
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