Hi everyone It is a year today since we took delivery of our car, and it demanded a present!! It had it's first hiccup. One of it's 2 batteries died, while we were at Karijini National Park, so we have used our generator to start the car since then each morning, and we came back here to Port Hedland to buy a new one. Since we left here, we drove south to Marble Bar, which has a record of the hottest spot in Australia, and explored that area. We took a bucket to fill with water from the pool, to wet the rocks to reveal multi coloured jasper rocks. Chris had a swim there too. We drove down to Glenherring Gorge, some 27kms along the 4WD shortcut road to see what it was like, and decided ... read more

Hi everyone We have travelled down an uninteresting road from Broome, but have made many lovely stops along the way, each one along a red dirt road to the coast. Unfortunately there has been no computer coverage until now. We arrived in Port Hedland today, and have lots of emails and news to attend to. I will probably send 2 lots of photos, as too many to put on one blog! After 11 days in Broome, we drove south to the turnoff to Barn Hill Station, then tackled our first (for the caravan) 10k of red dirt road. This is why we paid the extra and got an off road capable van, with the bigger wheels. Barn hill Station has a rustic camping ground alongside red cliffs, beside a lovely white sand beach. We had 2 ... read more

Hi all Have had trouble with the map routing since Darwin, so will try to get it tonight. We now have a booking and head to Broome tomorrow, which is full of caravans! Cheers Lynne and Chris... read more

Hi all We moved to a much nicer caravan park a few k's out of town at Lake Kununurra on Friday. This was our 1st choice, but we couldn't get in to then, and had to take 5 days. It's really busy here now, so many caravans, lots with nowhere to go!! Our site is about 50 meters from the lake, with water views. Lovely, we take chairs down to the lakefront at sunset with our drinks and watch the sun go down. Yesterday we ventured out to the Gibb River Road, a dusty, corrigated 4WD road. We stopped first at Emma Gorge and did a 2 hour walk over a rough shingle track (classed as difficult), to a waterfall and cold swimming hole, where we got into our togs for a quick dip. We then ... read more

Hi everyone We really enjoyed exploring the Litchfield National Park for 3 days. Its about 120k south west of Darwin. We did day trips from Batchelor. We swam a couple of times each day in the lovely pools below the waterfalls, and did 2 4WD tracks, one to Tjaynera Falls had quite a deep water crossing, which was a test for our car (that doesn't have a snorkel), but "no worries", no leaks! We came back to Howard Springs C.P. slightly further out of Darwin, but cheaper and quieter. Some of our friends were here (they left today for Kununurra). We have been to the very good Territory Wildlife Park, and Berry Springs, where we again floated downstream with our noodles to another big pool, another day we drove east to Fog Dam, a wetlands bird ... read more