Packed up as usual and headed off, soon turning east onto the Kakadu Highway.
A nice little tailwind pushed us over the first half of the ride to the Mary River Roadhouse. Unfortunately the second half of the ride was …
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DAY 49 5 AUGUST KATHERINE TO PINE CREEK
Good-bye to brother Peter and Rob in the morning. They headed off to get the Toyota’s fuel line cleaned before heading home to Longreach via the Boroloola Road that we had just come up. At the end it turned out …
DAY 48 4 AUGUST KATHERINE. SOME GO TO THE GORGES AND SOME JUST GORGE
After some discussion about where to put the tents (a long term resident at the Kway Crossing Resort said ‘not too close to the fence because the locals on the way home from the pub hop over said fence to …
day 66.5 22 AUGUST DARWIN!!!!! ITS OVER
Well folks, the Cairns to Darwin Intrepid’eans made it through nearly 4000 km including 1460 km of often rough, dusty, stony but mostly corrugated roads to Darwin.
Elapsed time was 65 days.
STRAGGLINGSTU at the end in Darwin
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DAY 47 3 AUGUST MATARANKA TO KATHERINE
DAY 47 X AUGUST MATARANKA TO KATHERINE
Pushing on to Katherine today. My brother had decided to go up to Katherine to see the gorges and spend another day with. me without upsetting the other riders by insisting on another …
DAY 46 2 AUGUST REST AND SWIM AT MATARANKA AND MEET BROTHER PETER
DAY 46 4 AUGUST REST AND SWIM AT MATARANKA AND MEET BROTHER PETER
After a short stroll with our pool noodles hired from the CP office we were at the Bitter Springs thermal pool. The idea here is loop your …
DAY 45 1 AUGUST MOLE HILL TO MATARANKA – Snorting in the night
DAY 45 3 AUGUST MOLE HILL TO MATARANKA
Bit of minor drama last night. About 3am a lot of dramatic huffing and puffing just beyond the camp. After a few minutes of this Brian charged out with his shovel and …
DAY 44 31 JULY ROPER BAR TO MOLE HILL
DAY 44 2 AUGUST ROPER BAR TO MOLE HILL
Up and at ‘em.
Chris O’B had not wanted to wait so had gone on ahead yesterday. We set him up with food for the trip and went back to resting. …
DAY 42 29 JULY MOUNTAIN CREEK TO ROPER BAR
DAY 42 31JULY MOUNTAIN CREEK TO ROPER BAR
A good 14km on,past Ngkurr (unseen on the north bank of the Roper River) was the fabled caravan park of Tomato Island. Hot showers, clean water, lawns. Filled our waterbottles and …
DAY 41 28 JULY TOWNS RIVER TO MOUNTAIN CREEK
DAY 41 30 JULY TOWNS RIVER TO MOUNTAIN CREEK
Another very tough day of loose sand (=walk), corrugations (=walk) and some stones or clay (=ride).
We were sitting having a sandwich when a caravan came round the corner 300m …