Restocked at the town shop and the better provisioned service station we headed off to the Litchfield National Park. The joke in Batchelor is that Litchfield is a much better but less known park than Kakadu, which has so many …

A short 15 kms or so over grey clay flood plains and then up a lovely rain-foresty track alongside a small stream and onto the Stuart Highway. Bitumen again!

A fast (for Brian, Christine and Chris O’B, slow for me) …

Almost immediately after leaving camp we passed the turnoff for the Jim Jim Road (my friend Paula remembers it well, she met her husband-to-be on a bus tour there).

Then it was passed the Paper Bark caravan park (closed) and …

A relaxed start to the morning after being kept awake until late by the partying group tour in the segregated part of the campground next door, followed by being roused early in the morning (before 6 am) by said group …

Back on the bikes and an easy ride up to the mining township of Jabiru. A good supermarket but the town is obviously looking for a reason to be since the uranium mine closed. A quiet night in the caravan …

The title sums it up.

Get up earlier than one would like on a rest day to be able to catch the 8 am boat tour. While queuing to board the flat-bottomed boat an unlucky punter dropped their mobile phone …

Up before daylight to the sounds of Brian stoking the fire. I finally made a damper and cooked it in the ashes before we headed off to Cooinda Resort.

As always the ride back out along the rubbish dirt road …

A casual enough start to the day but still beat the last of the party goers out of camp. Have sympathy for parents trying to round up teenage girls. Bounced back over the rocky road and straight up the Arnhem …

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 …

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 …