Blogs from Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 7

This past week has seen us enter our 11th month of travelling, Paul’s and my 13th year of marriage, and Western Australia, marking the home stretch of our Aussie Odyssey. Only six weeks to go! We are now in Kununurra, recovering after a very busy week in Kakadu National Park. Covering more than 19,000 square kilometres, Kakadu is Australia’s largest national park (second largest in the world), and it was one of the places both Paul and I were really looking forward to seeing. After the beauty of Litchfield, we had very high expectations of Kakadu, expectations that were somewhat dampened when we first drove in to the park. Coming in from the top end, one does not see the 2,000-million-year-old Arnhem Land escarpment, nor the wetlands or forests that Kakadu is famed for. Instead, the ... read more

23/9/11 Friends, Romans, Countrymen… lend me your ears… After leaving Broome, we headed to our next destination, Derby. The reason for a visit there was to see an old friend, Joy. When I say, ''old", she is in fact one month to the day younger than me! But "old" in that she was my best friend in grades 5 and 6 and we reconnected through Facebook a couple of years ago. What we discovered then was that we both worked in the same hospital and didn't know it! Anyway, Joy has just recently started with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and we were pretty excited to visit her at work and have the chance to see one of the planes! We then enjoyed drinks on the semi-circular Derby jetty while watching the plump orange sun slump ... read more

Katherine to Kununarra(KU) (7075 km to 7578 km) Note have noticed some comments on blog not sure how to respond at this stage ,keeping quite busy just trying to keep up with daily blogs- please text or email if you want a response thanks the macs.... read more

Who wakes up in the morning and says to themselves “I know what I will do today. I will pack my cans of spray paint and drive a thousand kilometres to a famous landmark, then mark it with my name with spray paint, so that everybody will know that I was there for many years to come”? Not me, that’s for sure. But there must be a lot of people out there who do. A couple of days ago, we went out to The Devils Marbles and were disappointed to see they had been daubed with graffiti. Full points to the Rangers who had done an admirable job of trying to remove it, but it was still there. Today, we did some sight seeing in Gregory National Park, in The Northern Territory. Today we had our ... read more

I spent my last day in Broome having a bit of a wander and then just relaxed at the hostel. My greyhound bus to Kununurra is an evening bus. Ulli helped me with my bags and we headed over to the visitor center where the HUGE bus would pick me up. My bags were loaded onto the bus and I was given my seat. This time saying goodbye to Ulli meant really saying goodbye as we are now headed in different directions. She is on her way to Cairns. I hopped on the bus and got myself comfortable. I had a seat to myself which was nice. The bus left Broome at 6:15pm and we headed down the highway in the darkness. A movie was put on to pass a bit of the time, Pretty Woman. ... read more