Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
With our days in the Northern Territory drawing to a close, we headed back down the Stuart Highway again towards Katherine, this time to join the Victoria Highway to venture west towards Western Australia. This section of the trip, from Daly River in the NT to Kununurra in WA, is just under 800 kms, but…
As the title implies, we headed out to Daly River in the hope of landing a barramundi or two, given the region’s fame for big barra. Now, Daly River is not a big place. There’s a pub, a police station, a petrol station, and a general store (which wasn’t even open when we called by…
What can we say about Coober Pedy? Um, kinda different? Chock full of interesting characters? Frontier land? A good place to take the time to clean all the dust out of the van and find a hardware store so we could make some minor repairs to the van? Firstly, Coober Pedy is not a pretty…
While we love to free camp in the Australian bush where we can, we also enjoy staying in RV-friendly towns, where locals tempt caravanners to stay over and spend money in local businesses. These towns are often small rural communities, many of which are doing it tough in times of drought, and we are always…
We were determined to take things slowly on this trip. Unlike previous trips before we retired, this one was going to be relaxing, with no long days darting hundreds of kilometres from Point A to Point B, whizzing past towns and scenery. This intention was fine in theory, until we heard about South Australia’s famed…