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 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 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 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 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 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 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 …
DAY 40 27 JULY COX RIVER TO TOWNS RIVER
I can’t actually remember Cox River but from there it was a straight forward run through increasingly dusty conditions to the Towns River. As the road left the hills and rolled …
DAY 39 26 JULY BUTTERFLY SPRINGS TO COX RIVER
Left the beautiful Butterfly Springs after filling water bottles from the small cascade flowing from cracks in the rocky tableland above – lovely clear clean cool water.
A few hours later …
DAY 38 25 JULY SOUTHERN LOST CITY TO BUTTERFLY SPRINGS
Woke in the morning to see a couple of buffalo cows and a calf grazing nearby. They quickly spooked and ran off.
Riding today was a repeat of yesterday – …
