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Category Archives: Cairns-Darwin Riding
DAY 43 30 JULY RESTING AT ROPER BAR
Being absolutely knackered we stayed in the Roper River caravan park for a day. Quite basic (only a small solar panel to power a string of fairy lights in the amenities block and a small solar water heater) but clean …
DAY 67 AND ONWARDS EPILOGUE
We spent the next few days variously packing up our gear and exploring Darwin.
The first two days were about eating as our bodies caught up on depleted reserves, then it was about visiting various museums (the air museum with …
DAY 66 22 AUGUST DARWIN !!!!!! ITS OVER
A delayed start as we sifted through our accumulated detritus from the road ditching water bottles, plastic bags, old resort brochures, old food and so on.
A final few photos of us and our rigs and then on to the …
DAY 65 21 AUGUST THE ORCHID FARM, JAM AND SCONES, THE LAST NIGHT
DAY 65 AUGUST 21 THE ORCHID FARM, JAM AND SCONES, THE LAST NIGHT
After breakfast Brian and Christine set off for the 8 kms to the Orchid Farm for a look-see and tea and scones. I did the washing and …
DAY 64 20 AUGUST 20 PAST HUMPTY DOO AND THE SPECIAL CAMPSITE AT COOLINGA
Up reasonably early in the morning to compete for breakfast room in the camp kitchen (taken over by two Swiss families who were winding up their Australian desert trip, nice trip but be a bit more considerate of other campers …
DAY 63 19 AUGUST LEAVING LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK TO BERRY SPRINGS
Leaving Wangi it was a quick ride along the bottom of the scarp on the western edge of the NP until re-entering the NP and climbing back onto the top of the tableland. Then down and out of the Litchfield …
DAY 62 18 AUGUST WANGI FALLS
The ride back through the middle of Litchfield NP to the Litchfield-Daley River turnoff was a lot easier the second time around. While chewing on a 600 ml frozen chocolate milk for lunch a NP ranger pulled up to check …
DAY 61 17 AUGUST BATCHELOR AGAIN
Quickly back on the bitumen and soon turned north on Dorat Road for Batchelor. About twenty kilometres along near a private Land for Wildlife nature reserve I was a bit slow reacting to wiggle on the road and ran over …
DAY 60 16 AUGUST A LIFT OVER THE CROCODILES, SAND AND PAST TIPPERARY STATION TO THE LAST WILD CAMP
Back out over the sandy track onto the main 4WD track which was mostly rideable if only two wheel ruts in some places for 10 km until the Reynolds River crossing.
Rangers Helga and Darius had made me promise not …