Catherine and Mark turning dreams into memories
Author: Mrs A Monday location: from Adels Grove to Camooweal via Riverleigh Fossil Fields We left Adels Grove and drove an hour south heading to the world heritage-listed Riversleigh Fossil Fields, 25 million year old remnants of a multitude of creatures which used to live here in days gone by. In contrast to Boodjamulla National …
Continue reading “16-17 July: Crossing into the Northern Territory”
Author: Mrs A Location: Block D1, Donga 6A, Howard Springs, Northern Territory, Australia And so we have finally reached the end of our two week sentence, and are about to board a flight to Sydney. woo-hoo! Time during this second week seemed to crawl by in contrast to the first, Sunday seeming never to arrive. …
Continue reading “16-22 November: Survival learnings for Howard Springs: We’re released!”
Author: Mrs A Location: Howard Springs Quarantine Centre, Howard Springs, Northern Territory, Australia We have just finished day 5 of quarantine and it’s incredible how the time has flown. Our first couple of days were consumed with calls to and from the IT team here, trying to get us fixed up with internet. Being online …
Continue reading “10-12 November: …When you’re excited about a trip to the laundry…”
Author: Mr A Location: Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia A number of my friends won’t be surprised to hear that on entering Australia yesterday I have been detained at the pleasure of the Australian government, whilst assessing my potential health hazard to a largely coronavirus free country . Oh yes, Catherine’s …
Author: Mr A Location: Across the Plenty and Donohue Highways – from the Northern Territory into Queensland Monday: It was a chilly pack up as we left Alice and headed north to the start of the Plenty Highway. Cutting straight across the north end of the Simpson Desert, its a pretty wild and wooly place …
Continue reading “13-15 August: Crossing the Plenty (of corrugations) Highway”
Author: Mrs A Location: Berry Springs, Northern Territory Friday-Monday I found I am still capable of procrastinating when needing to do some work on the laptop. I did all sorts of things, like wash the car, wash the caravan, wash the roof of the caravan, clean out the kitchen drawers, defrost the freezer, even supermarket …
Author: Mrs A Location: Berry Springs, Northern Territory Monday: It was a busy morning of packing up while Mr A took the Landcruiser into Katherine to get the wheel alignment checked (standard check post new shocks). Finally we took off up the highway, about a three hour drive to Berry Springs. Berry Springs is a …
Author: Mrs A Location: Katherine, Northern Territory Saturday: Leaving Bitter Springs, it was just over an hours’ drive up the highway to Katherine. We last visited here about 15 years ago when we hired a Landrover Troop Carrier in Darwin and explored the region. We set up at the campground and headed to the shops …
Continue reading “21-22 July: Katherine welcomes us for the weekend”
Author: Mrs A Location: from Daly River to Mataranka, Northern Territory Thursday: Along with the masses we departed Daly River by 8.30am and continued our journey north. This time we were heading to Bitter Springs in Elsey National Park, just 2km away from the small township of Mataranka. Before long we were pulling into the …
Continue reading “19-20 July: Bitter Springs brings the sweetest relief”
Author: Mrs A Location: from Banka Banka Station to Daly Waters, Northern Territory Wednesday morning saw us pull out by 8.30am, point our noses again in a northerly direction, and aim for our next destination, Daly Waters.The flat dry landscape continued, broken only by the occasional herd of cattle ambling alongside the highway and flocks …