Asti Motel In Darwin

... get the warming power of the east to west path of the sun. Only in Litchfield National Park near a town called Humpty Doo are the termites smart enough to figure this out.

Did you know that termites build their mounds by ******** out cellulose and supposedly their methane ***** contribute to global warming? Who would have ever known? This is why I am always pleased to travel to the ends of civilization to fish out this useful ...

... one the story and photo will be on this site very soon afterward.
The build-up has begun, so our days are very hot (mid-30's) with around 50-60% humidity, so a bit revolting but will get worse before it gets better. Apparently the monsoon rains don't arrive until mid December to January so we have some way to go before there will be any relief.

... where you could not put your finger in the water. We continued on our way through Mt. Surprise, Georgetown, Normanton and Karumba (the Gulf of Carpenaria). We walked along the beach at Karumba and watched the sunset over the ocean for the first time. We were hoping to go fishing on a charter boat in Karumba but the weather was not co-operating and it was forecast to be windy for the next few days.


After leaving Karumba, we went back through Normanton and ...

It was really starting to feel like a road trip. We stopped in the weirdest places all day. First was The Daly Waters Pub that is an icon in the desert. (Google it). Good ...

... nails and gained first class access to my personal one kilo of export quality banana prawns. We ate seafood for dinner for the next 4 nights, by which point we were dying for a steak! The car fridge had a pungent aroma of humming, over ripe fish that proved hard to eradicate.

Just before the NT border is Lawn Hill National Park. Simply put, a palm tree lined, aqua water oasis in the middle of dry, crackly savannah ...

... Nacht bestimmt 10mal zur Seite huepfen musste, oder eine Vollbremsung hingelegt hat... weil Kuh und Kanguruh das Scheinwerferlicht sieht und denkt: "ab auf die Strasse..."
...deswegen bekomme ich auch jedes Mal Ruege von Johannes, wenn ich unangeschnallt auf meinen Sitzen liege... :)

Unsere Nacht vorm Flug verbringen wir wieder am Flughafen... dass spart uns mal eben 60 Dollar und es schlaeft sich erfahrungsgemaess ziemlich gut...

On to Darwin, Australia, the place of the first critical location of defense for Australia from the Japanese during World War II. There are remnants that still can be seen from that time including the underground storage areas that housed the fuels supplies. The city is lovely and renovated with a sophisticated downtown area. Our first stop was the Crocodylus Park, filled ...

... verwacht een hoop stenen te zijn, maar het is eigenlijk een hele vlakte! Dit is een heilige plaats voor da Warramungu, de plaatselijke Aboriginals. Schitterend en echt uniek. Voor de rest bestaat onze dag er voornamelijk uit dwars door de outback te rijden. Nu krijgen we pas een goed zicht op de weidsheid van dit land. We rijden over de grote autostrade dwars van zuid naar noord ( 1 ...

Drove down the centre of Oz today, very boring! The scenery is just trees and grass which was surprising to me as thought it would be desert. As usual didn't see much of traffic although it is the only road going from North to South!! Just the odd caravan and road train. We were going to stop the night at Banka Banka which is a great Station and has a slide show in the evening about the ...