We woke up early to the quaking of the frogs and the singing of the birds (if you call this singing). Because we only have two days we decided to depart early and have breakfast while cruising. This is quite a nice feeling, sitting on the veranda in the shade eating bread and sipping coffee Read More »
We started early with drinking wine today. At 11 am we were at the Penfolds’ cellar door. We knew that Penfolds has some nice wines, but there are quite a few more only available at the cellar door. Despite being a big vineyard, their cellar door is quite small and gives a boutique impression. Have Read More »
An early start and a long way ahead! We started to drive from Clare Valley in the early mornings towards Port Augusta, specifically we targeted the Outback Centre. We drove through the plains of South Australia with the bright brown grass. We reached the Outback Centre about lunchtime. Apart from getting a good booklet of Read More »
Today’s drive took us from the Flinders Ranges north towards the Gammon National Park. We started early in a quiet and peaceful environment of the National Park Camping ground. The first destination was the hot springs of Paralana. They are located just near Arkaroola and it takes a 4WD drive of 26 kilometres to get Read More »
We woke up today after a night of rain. The first thing to do was to check the road condition. This normally comes by fax and shows the roads that are closed and which roads are accessible only by 4WD. Fortunately for us, the roads from Iga Warta towards Marree were open. We started our Read More »
We didn’t know that Camel tours can be cancelled due to other bush camels. But let’s start from the beginning. The day started very early for us to see the sunrise at Uluru. From the various tours, we choose the Camel sunrise tour as they played an important role in desert life and in Australia’s Read More »
We reached Top End today. Top End refers to the region around Darwin. It is too the north most point of our travel and by reaching Darwin we have successfully crossed a country and a continent by car. That of course calls for celebration. The climate changed from Mataranka a bit and became more humid. Read More »
Stayed at Aldinga Beach. 29th: Went for a drive to Goolwa and across to Hindmarch Island driving to the Murray River mouth and to where Storm Boy was filmed along the Coorong National Park. Drove around Lake Alexandrina, through Malang (fishing shacks along the beach there). Did a big loop to Murray Bridge, Strathalbyn and Read More »
The magic number today is 11111.1 that’s the number of kilometres we have been driving so far in our trip. Today we backtracked from Katherine towards Tennant Creek. The highway that will take us across to Cairns takes off about 20 km north of Tennant Creek at a place called Three Ways. As the name Read More »
We were up early again after a hot night. Today’s journey takes us through the outback of Queensland towards the Coast. The initial plan was to make it about half way to the coast and stay another night in the outback. However, with the early start this would mean to arrive around lunchtime there and Read More »
