7 months of Bulldust

The Lost City and a Little Boy Lost!

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Views [615] | Comments [1]

By mid morning the following day we were exploring the “Lost City” in Limmen National Park.   Towering pillars of rock 1.4 billion years in the making was an impressive geological backdrop to a 2 hour walk. We stopped to chat to ... Read more >

Photos: Butterfly Springs

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Limmen National Park - along the Savannah Way

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Heading along the Savannah Way

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Views [445]

The Savannah Way is the name collectively given to tracks that extend from Cairns in Queensland right across the top of Australia to the end of the Gibb River Road in Broom WA.   We have already travelled quite a bit of this iconic ... Read more >

Photos: Elsey National Park

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Cutta Cutta Caves

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Off and Away to Elsey National Park and Mataranka

AUSTRALIA | Tuesday, 24 Aug 2010 | Views [1196] | Comments [1]

  It seems quite odd to be packing up again after a month in Katherine – in fact it was noticeable that we were out of practice with the whole pack up routine.   Previously we had the whole pack up / or set up routine down to a well-... Read more >

Ethan – After Kakadu then what?

AUSTRALIA | Monday, 9 Aug 2010 | Views [550] | Comments [2]

  Hi there everyone,   I know I have been a bit slack with doing any blog posts but have been very busy exploring.   After we had been to Kakadu, we came to Katherine where we have been staying for a month while my Dad has been ... Read more >

Update on the “Bear Grills” adventure

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Views [640] | Comments [2]

  Well, in our last blog I had let you all know that Ethan and Steve had headed off into the wild blue yonder to pit their survival skills against nature.   Of course they were supremely confident that since it was the “dry” season ... Read more >

Photos: Umbruwarra Gorge

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Butterfly gorge and Douglas Hot springs

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Edith Falls

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Katherine Speedway & Springfield Homestead

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Last few from Kakadu

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 8 Aug 2010 | Photo Gallery

So here we are in Katherine!

AUSTRALIA | Saturday, 31 Jul 2010 | Views [862] | Comments [3]

  Well we have arrived back in Katherine ready for our month long stay here whilst Steve does a months contract at Tindall air force base during operation “pitch black”.   We are serenaded by the sound of the huge jets flying in formation ... Read more >

Photos: Southern Kakadu

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Photo Gallery

Photos: Northern Kakadu

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Photo Gallery

Kakadu

AUSTRALIA | Sunday, 25 Jul 2010 | Views [522] | Comments [2]

  Kakadu is a World Heritage listed National park covering 20,000 square kms and you can see why.   It is exceptionally beautiful, has amazing biodiversity (with 1600 plant varieties and 10,000 insect species), unusual landforms, different ... Read more >

Photos: A cruise along Katherine Gorge with friends

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 | Photo Gallery

Meet you in restaurant in pink cat?????...........

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 21 Jul 2010 | Views [505] | Comments [2]

  Finally after many cases of telephone and text message tag with the FOPS’s, (including the wonderful message above…….   “ meet you in restaurant in pink cat”   .   By way of explaination, Telstra provides this as a free service ... Read more >