Days 45 & 46. Tennant Creek to Mt Isa'ish to Hughenden It was bound to happen eventually, and there's no guarantee it won't happen again! Yesterday we encountered our first hurdle of the trip which was quite scary and intimidating but all turned out alright. Let me start from the beginning: as anticipated we managed an early departure from Tennant Creek yesterday. Due to leaving the van hooked up to the car we were able to leave by 7.30am, ready to embar...

Day 43: Mataranka to Tennant Creek We are getting really good at these early departures. We were on the road by 8am once again. Darren had a fleeting thought of driving all the way to the Queensland border today, but thankfully I managed to convince him otherwise this time. We do have a couple of days of long, arduous driving but I'd prefer to add an extra stop rather than push ourselves too far one day in order to save time the following. The drive was fai...

Day 43: Batchelor to Mataranka We made the trek to slightly cooler temperatures today. We were successful in getting away early, making our departure at 7.50am. The drive took about 4 hours, with Brandon and I suffering with the sun bearing through our side of the car for the whole trip down. We arrived at the caravan park by 12pm, set up and ate lunch before watching the barramundi being fed in the parks lagoon. Brandon and Micaela put their hands up to hav...

Day 42: Litchfield National Park, Day 2 We had a little bit of a slow start this morning after Darren was up in the early hours of the morning with a headache and Micaela was up just before dawn with a touch of diarrhea, so a sleep in was needed by all. I got up and went to put a load of washing on before going back to bed. Brandon was up not long after I got back so I put a DVD on for the kids to watch in bed allowing Darren more of an opportunity to get rid ...

Day 41: Litchfield National Park I am so tired today, a full day in the sun with a few swims and a couple of walks has taken it out of me. We started the day with a walk over Wangi Falls and treated ourselves to a cooling swim at the end. Micaela, Ethan and I started swimming over to the waterfalls but Ethan freaked because the water went really dark due to the thick covering of leaves and twigs on the creek bed. We turned around then Micaela swam out with Da...