we had heard there were hot springs in katherine but we also knew that they were pretty popular i.e. crowded. we had also heard of another area with thermal springs further on the way towards lichfield. that suited us well: we will be back in katherine later and didn’t want to hang around at this…
yes with a ‘k’. we are now officially in the northern territory! we have not seen much of katherine, though: after a long day on the road we arrived quite late. it took us about 9 hours from kununurra to katherine, with two short stops. one for fuel and another one to book a camp…
you know the story: a mere 240 km from the world-renowned metropolis of kununurra you find the amazing oasis that the bungle bungle caravan park is. here is just what we mean by oasis: the cows eat the trees (and whatever else they find in the park). and from there it is only 50 km…
four flat tyres in six days! ok, the first one was my fault: i was running the tyres with too low pressure. the result was a stake through the sidewall and a written-off tyre. then, still on the gibb, and with significantly more tyre pressure another rock punched through the thread. the hole was big…
i hope i am not offending anyone by saying that wyndham is remarkably unremarkable. it would also be a little bit unfair, in the sense that that description probably applies to many places here in australia as well as anywhere in the world. you get to wyndham by taking a left turn at the eastern…
ivanhoe crossing is located just north of kununurra. it is one of the iconic water crossings of the ord river. it must have been a lot wilder in the past, before the dam was built; now the release of water is controlled and the crossing is deep enough to make it fun but not so…
one challenge we faced when camping off-grid – which is e.g. what you do pretty much all along the gibb – was to keep all our batteries charged. the van is actually not the issue: since we changed our batteries to lithiums we are really never in much danger of running out of power. we…
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