Blogs from Daly Waters, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Day two of our trip up to Darwin did, as our guides had warned, contain a lot of time sitting in the bus watching the landscape slowly change from dry scrub into green tropical vegetation. Our first stop came mid morning when we arrived at Newcastle Waters, a huge but now deserted cattle station that used to be an important meeting point for drovers crossing the outback during the early settlement days. In the 1800 and early 1900s, farmers in Australia employed cattle drovers to take animals over vast distances to sell at market, deliver them to new owners or simply find better sources of food and water during droughts. These drovers would move hundreds, sometimes thousands of cows or sheep huge distances and Newcastle Waters, being fairly central, happened to be a convenient place for ... read more

23-7-09 On the road again to Pine Creek, only an hour away, we decided to stay at Miners Park no 101 NT in free Camps book . Well what an adventure, we followed what we thought were the directions & got onto a dirt rd, we were supposed to go 3 k’s but we could not turn around, we went 10 k’s & said OK we are just going to do it. Den had to do a 10 point turn & we filled up the back legs of the caravan with dirt scraping the van in & out of the rubble. I will give it to Den he can back a caravan. We did not do any damage & we did not end up in a ditch . The road was so rough that we were ... read more

Hi Bloggers, You know how I like to got all sentimental, well we have just published our 300th Blog Entry, you may say, Oh not not more statistics but come on, 300 blog entries, that is a lot of work. So for the full facts, we have done. 300 Entries Words 364030 Photo's 3113 Blog hits this month 2444 Total blog hits to date 21732 You just sit there awaiting for us to upload our blog entry not even thinking about how much work has gone in to this, we seem to be typing morning, noon and night, in between, driving all day, feeding ourselves, putting up and taking down the trailer tent and the 100's of photo's we take and have to store and manage. Don't get me wrong we are not ungrateful, The1 message ... read more

Well we finally said goodbye to Darwin and the humidity which was a bit hard to take and made our way down to Katherine which of course is famous for its gorges and the Katherine River.It is also a stopping or starting place for the famous Ghan train and we were lucky enough to see it getting ready to depart for Adelaide on one of the days we were there.It was very impressive with an enormous amount of carriages.Of course we all decided there and then that we may have to consider a trip on her before we get too old.So that is something else to add to the bucket list.we stayed at the Riverview caravan Park which was very nice just outside of town and very near the other great attraction ,the hot springs.Of course ... read more

Last night we stopped off at the Devils Marbles again and Samuel spent the afternoon riding his bike . He can officially ride without training wheels hipeeee!!!!!! We arrived a Daly Waters to check out the famous Pub. It was a unique place with everything you could imagine hanging from the walls around the bar. There was Frank the chookman to entertain us that night. He told some great Aussie jokes and sang some funny songs with a wedge tailed eagle on his head AKA a black chook. This was another monumental moment for Samuel as he lost his tooth and he was told that the tooth fairy doesn’t come to the NT because it is too far to fly so they have a Bush Fairy instead, it is the same as the tooth fairy except ... read more