Destination: Australia

Day 19

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 | By thewoodies | Views [264]

Finally caught up with washing and cleaning then headed into central Darwin. Visited the NT Library to do some family history research. The library is located in the wonderful NT Parliment House building. The librarian was unable to help me but gave advice ... Read more >

Couple of things ........

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 | By sjamieson005 | Views [224]

I have a couple of observations to make: 1. can people please wash their hands when they finished in the toilet. 2 times to the bathroom, 2 times not washing hands for those leaving - what is the point in washing mine. 2.  If water is so god dam precious ... Read more >

Photos: MR to Denham

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 | By sjamieson005 | Photo Gallery

Out West and meeting a prince

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 | By sjamieson005 | Views [376]

I have got to be honest that other than the first two days after our last post it has been pretty boring whilst in WA (Western Australia to the English). I'll explain later, but with such expectation which kept us alive during the Nullarbor we were a ... Read more >

Before leaving

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 | By mattmc | Views [474]

Well, here it is. A blog of sorts. my first one, i have withheld my personal ramblings from the internet (much unlike others) for far to long! I must also at this point interject and note that being a child brought up in the 90s with access ... Read more >

Tags: getting ready

Photos: Phoenix

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 | By kymp76 | Photo Gallery

Phoenix

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 | By kymp76 | Views [364]

Well my trip finally started with four days in sweltering Phoenix.  Although I didnt mind the dry heat of constantly over 40 degrees, it was a bit of a harsh shock from Perth winter.  However I was lucky enough to stay in a gorgeous home on Penny and ... Read more >

Day 18

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 | By thewoodies | Views [261]

Not much to report. The drive from Katherine to Darwin involved more hill climbs and slightly windy road but with regular passing lanes we didn't hold anyone up for too long. There were a number of flowering native plants along the road verges including ... Read more >

Photos: home

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 | By becvdk | Photo Gallery

Day 17

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 | By thewoodies | Views [321] | Comments [2]

This morning we visited the Katherine Museum which had a range of interesting material about people and events that happened in and around Katherine, including the fact that the town was bombed during the second world war, as well as Darwin. There was ... Read more >

Photos: Katherine Gorge

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 | By thewoodies | Photo Gallery

Day 16

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 | By thewoodies | Views [313]

Slept in this morning so it was about 11 o'clock before we got to Katherine after a 115km drive. The Knott's Crossing Resort Caravan Park has lots of palms, bougainvilleas and other tropical plants growing as well as native trees. Katherine is quite ... Read more >

Why, Will? What's wrong with you?!

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 | By wilski | Views [667]

"You can't drive around with a tiger in yer car, you can't drive around with a tiger in yer car, you can't drive round wif a tiger in yer car, but you can be happy if you've a mind to" ~ Roger Miller, from the song 'You Can't Roller-skate In ... Read more >

France

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 | By ezz87 | Views [566]

We have been unto a lot since my last blog, we had another 3 days in Paris, which we spent eating a lot of baguettes, drinking a lot of wine, we went to the top of the Eiffel tower, lazed around in the parks drinking wine and people watching, saw all ... Read more >

Day 15

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 | By thewoodies | Views [292] | Comments [2]

Woken by the birds before dawn and so ready to go early. Fortunately the battery is still working, so hopefully we just were drawing too much power as we didn’t disconnect the car at the marbles.   It was a short drive to Mataranka and we were here ... Read more >