Month: September 2018

aka zippy’s resting place. it’s another of these ‘iconic’ aussie places in the sense that you have to be pretty determined to make your way there in the first place. as previously discussed we decided to take the easy (but boring) way from mataranka through three ways, barkly and then up from camooweal to adel’s…

it is with great sadness that we announce the recent passing of our friend and companion zippy the little camera drone. he died doing what he liked best, zipping around trying to get the best shot for this blog. but just like icarus he found that when you get close to the sun – or…

i did mention yesterday that we decided to take the chicken option: the long way on the smooth tarmac. as expected there was not too much excitement, except maybe for natalie who found another snake to pat at the little roper homestead. unfortunately for her she then had to use the 8 hours in the…

we spoke to some more people and the consensus is that the road between domagee and borroloola is not too good. we therefore decided to take the long way round: we’ll go south between the tanami desert and the barkly ranges, then turn east at three ways and hope to get to the barky roadhouse…

we spent our last day in kakadu trekking out to jim jim falls. we knew the falls were no longer running this late in the dry but we were keen to see it anyway. (above the trail into jim jim falls. can’t see the trail … isn’t that fun.) jim jim falls are massive: the…