What a fantastic 5 days we have had in Cloncurry with the "Beat the Heat Festival" being on for 3 days over the weekend. Friday kicked off at 5pm with The Street Party with one of the main back streets been cordoned off and it was $15 a head for entry and there was food and bars inside along with "The Curry Cookoff" judged by Miguel Maestre and then the public were able to do tastings and there was a crowd choice voting, there were some seriously good curries there, Sri Lankan, Indian, Thai etc.... was a really fun event! Early on there was lots of kids entertainment including Cocomelon (which I had never heard of but obviously all the kids there did as they knew the words to the songs and the people's names). Mine ... read more

Just over a three hour trip from Barkly Homestead to Camooweal which is only about 12klms over the NT/QLD border. We stayed on the billabong at Camooweal for a night just relaxing and taking in the beautiful countryside, its only about 4kms out of town. Were going to stay a few nights at the billabong but found out the Drover's Camp Festival was on so then hitched up and went into town and stayed at the pub. People come from all around for the festival and the Thursday night at the pub Tom Maxwell was playing, the guy we saw in Daly Waters and he played out at the festival as well. $70 gives you an entry into all events at the festival, Fri, Sat, Sun...... pretty good value! Met a couple of beautiful old drovers ... read more

Sorry to leave Lake Argyle as it was such a relaxing and lovely park. Were going to have 2 days between Lake Argyle and Katherine but realised timing to stock up on grog wasn't going to work, so many rules, times, regulations and days they don't sell grog arggghhh, so had one night on the road at a lovely bush camp at Dingo Creek Lagoon just between Timber Creek and Gregory there ended up being just four vans which was nice! The scenery between Timber Creek and Gregory and surrounds was just lovely! Then into Katherine to stock up with groceries as they have a good Woolworths and BWS and Cellarbrations, fuelled up and got out of there! They have POLICE (what a waste of resources) manning the bottle shops getting your details etc as there ... read more

From Derby to Wyndham is approximately 920klm so decided to take it easy over three days so that we can stop along the way. First stop was Fitzroy Crossing for fuel only and what a depressing town this is....aboriginal people sitting under trees everywhere, begging outside the roadhouse, the roadhouse itself had no windows but if they did they were boarded up, dirty toilets at roadhouse....not a nice place! We fuelled up and got the hell out of there! The 2 way road crossing of the Fitzroy River just opened again this week after being washed away AGAIN....it was all easy and had no trouble getting through. Then onto Ngumban Cliff Rest area, a free campground with toilets, rubbish facility and dump point, great spot perched up on the cliff, great for the sunset. Had happy ... read more

After two days on the lagoon between Marble Bar and Port Hedland, we headed off to stay in the G'Day Park in Port Hedland for a few days. Our first stop was the car/van wash and it took John a good half hour to get the dust off everything and it seems to be still oozing out of every crevice! Arrived at the caravan park and got all set up and looked across and down one and there were a couple we met at the Marble Bar Races....Toni and Mick..... we were so glad to meet up and we had a lovely time with them as our neighbors....happy hour 4pm each day for the 5 days! Port Hedland is a very industrial town everything is red, house roofs, roads, shops! A very spread out town, like ... read more