We reached our final destination on the west coast! It has been a long slog but we had loads of fun and Darwin is a pretty cool town. It is SUPER hot there though, it was easily reaching 35 everyday. We just sorted out a campsite and cooked some food and stuff on the first day but on the second day we chilled by the pool and then headed out for the night to celebrate driving 6000km! Darwin is a nice city, very easy to navigate and reasonably small but it has everything you could need. One of the streets was just bar after bar after bar so we spent the evening there doing a bit of a pub crawl, and ending in some very bad karaoke! I was totally mauled by sandflys unfortunately - it ... read more

Did NOT have a good night’s sleep last night, the caravan park we are staying at is home to the local colony of bats. They are absolutely enormous with wing spans of a metre! Its pretty cool at dusk because they all set off looking for food and the sky is full of them but then at around one or two o’clock in the morning they come back to the trees and just screech and make this weird giggly type noise; they sound like gremlins! The wildife here is pretty cool though, we have had to stop in the street to let dragon lizards cross, the sky is full of all different types of parrots - all different assortments of colour (but, again, they can be noisy too), there are loads of fish in the sea, ... read more

Having been getting up at 7 for the last few days we treated ourselves to a lie-in today. We then headed for “Cape Range” national park and to “Oyster Stacks” which we had heard so much about from our neighbour. Himself and his wife have been coming to the park we were at for the past 20 years and they just live there for four months of the year chasing the sun. Loads of people there were doing the same thing, it was kind of mental, but we were meeting some really nice people. So anyway we got to the beach and who was there but the two Joes! So we had a little catch up with them and then got in the water, the reef was about 5 metres from our towels, it was unreal ... read more

We woke up early on Monday morning and headed into town to pick up our “Chubby Camper” van that is ironically named “Sandman” (you’ll find out why it’s ironic later). We checked out of the hostel and, after some help from an Australian that “used to be a Pom”, we hit the “Brand Highway”. Calling it a highway is quite deceptive as it really is just two lanes long with overtaking lanes every 20km or so. We also passed loads of road trains and they are seriously scary! They make our little camper shake like crazy; they are the biggest trucks I have ever seen and they can be up to 36 metres long! We were on this road for 400km and it is just the most crazy, long straight road with hardly any passing cars ... read more

We leave tomorrow and i am super excited! We have almost packed everything, just have to sort out the last few bits and bobs and sort out camera's and chargers etc. We will set off for Heathrow at around 6 and our flight is scheduled for 9.15. We will try and log what we are doing and upload our pictures as often as possible so you can all see what we are up to and be reassured that we are safe! Speak again soon and the next entry will be coming from somewhere slightly more exciting then Reading please God! ... read more