Managed to get up on the second day for the conference without any real problems at all and it was so good to wake up somewhere nice. Went for a walk in the morning along the esplanade which was great. Great views and I decided to do some more exploring later on. In the afternoon after the morning sessions at the conference, I decided to go and ...

So Me, Andy and Dave said goodbye to everyone the night before and got up earlyish to catch the Greyhound bus. Stu dropped us off (even though he was still incredibly hungover from our leaving party the night before) It took about 11 hours to get to Darwin, we only stopped off in Katherine on the way there, which again is tiny with nothing to do...

So before we got the chance to relax too much good old Buzz picked us up nice and early for the second half of our adventure tour! This tour would be split into two parts; Alice to Darwin then Darwin to Kakadu National Park. First stop on the commencement of this trip was a nice place called Ti Tree where we had breakfast and looked around the A...

After the best 4 months in Perth we bought ourselves a wee motor (a 1986 Toyota Corona Station Wagon) and started the trek from Perth up to Darwin, all 4000km. we gave ourselves roughly a month to do the trip and so we could spend extra time doing things that we wanted on the way. As we left Darwin we headed straight for Kalbarri, Monkey Mia, Co...

De weg naar Jim Jim Falls vandaag is niet om mee te lachen: bijna volledig over onverharde zandbaantjes. Over de laatste 5 km hebben we zeker een half uur gedaan, omdat de weg zo hobbelig en nat was. Omdat het weer niet zo warm is als het zou moeten zijn, hebben we veel geluk met de natuur die we zien. Het gebeurt bijna nooit dat toeristen op ti...

Our journey continues up to the Northern Territories of Australia. The year we spent hear in the 1990's we saw much, but nothing up here.

Once my two trips were over, I decided to do whatever everyone else does in Darwin, drink! There isn't a huge amount else to do in Darwin, but there are plenty of bars around. The Northern Territory has the highest consumption of alcohol, per capita, in the whole of Australia and I would say a high proportion of that consumption is in Darwin. On...

Alice Springs, you may have guessed from my last entry, is a place I was not overly impressed with. It has the highest murder rate in Australia, quite possibly as it gives the inhabitants something to do. Joking aside, it has suffered serious problems over the years, and in 1975 had the dubious honour of having the world's highest per capita mur...

En route, to Darwin, we stopped so the bus driver could re-fuel. The driver informed us that there is someone very famous that often sits at the bar in the restaurant next to the fuel station, he tells us that he had a leading part in a very famous film - the film Crocodile Dundee. Now, cast your mind back to the film Croc Dundee, other than Mic...

Hi everyone, Arrived into Darwin airport at the ungodly hour of 4.30am. After a long delay at customs (Paul's straw hat had to be scrutinized by quarantine - no joke!), we managed to find a taxi in the carpark which was basically a building site to make our way to the city to find our hostel to get some sleep. Arrived to find that they had no co...