From one roadhouse / pub to another! The Barkly Homestead is looking pretty polished – from what I’ve read, it’s essentially brand new, after some significant renovations over the past few months or so to get ready for this dry…
We’re sitting in the Daly Waters Pub at the moment. Daly Waters is on the lands of the Jingili people, who are the traditional owners of the land around here – south to Renner Springs and north to Newcastle Waters.…
The final day in Darwin today, and third last day in the NT. Our Volkswagen Tiguan, named Estelle, is getting close to the next required service. It would probably arrive at some point next week, based on kilometres driven. Aside…
Today was mostly about Crocodylus Park. This place wasn’t on our original plan, but with the growing excitement and intrigue into crocs in the NT from most of us, we decided it would be worth a visit to see a…
We were 50/50 on doing a night or two in and around Litchfield to explore the park when we were planning the trip – but it’s only an hour and a half drive from Darwin, so we decided to do…
First stop of the day was another markets – the Parap Village Markets. A really well known and loved market by Darwin locals – so much so, that people apparently trek across Darwin to come here to have a laksa…
We had a slower morning today – Debbie headed off to Lifeblood to donate some plasma, and the kids and I enjoyed our bacon & eggs breakfast that the place we’re staying in had generously left for us. Mid morning,…
We’re settling into a really comfortable unit on Larrakia country, now known as Darwin. We pay our respects to the Larrakia people, who are the traditional owners of this land, and acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging. We headed…
So don’t hear me wrong, Kakadu has been incredible to visit, and we’ve seen some amazing things, and learnt so much – but today was the first day on this trip that we felt we might’ve stayed one day too…
Today’s Kakadu adventures were all down in the Ngurrungurrudjba (known as Yellow River) region of the Park. The first stop was the Warradjan Cultural Centre. I mentioned our visit to the Bowali Visitor Centre when we arrived here in Kakadu…