Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
We spent three days in Kakadu National Park. It wasn’t nearly enough. First, Kakadu is BIG. The park covers almost 20,000 square kms, and so the drives between some sites are long. We based ourselves at Jabiru, Kakadu’s main commercial centre, near the eastern side of the park. While this was handy for sites like…
After leaving Daly Waters, we headed to the Mataranka Homestead Resort and camping grounds, which are located just east of Mataranka, between the Little Roper and Waterhouse Rivers. Both rivers are famous for being full of Barramundi and the occasional crocodile. However, we were more interested in the Rainbow Thermal Spring and swimming in it’s…
You could be forgiven for thinking that the Australian outback is dull, boring, colourless tracts of nothing. Yeah, some of it is, for sure. But we have also found some jaw-dropping treasures in the last few days. Firstly, the Painted Desert … Instead of continuing up the last leg of the Oodnadatta Track from Oodnadatta…