Continuing South NT - 31st August 2022

Whilst we have phone signal I’ll catch up on the photos and our journey, We wanted to visit Edith Falls - again, it’s been 10 years or so since last time so time for a revisit. The weather is HOT and not having anything booked on the NT parks site we decided to camp 20k prior to the park and go in the next day. Well .. it was bloody hot and parked up in a dusty free camp area wasn’t the most enjoyable… but we toughed it out. The next morning we drove in and checked out the area, very little water over the falls but Dave had his customary dip - and that’s all it was .. Coffee and

Cake at the cafe and we were on our way. Our next overnight stop was at the WW2 McDonald Airstrip, an excellent place well away from the highway with kilometres of space and almost unlimited firewood. Lots of noisy Apostle Birds to keep us interested also. Further South we visited Devils Marbles another revisit for us and surprised to see you can no longer climb around on the rocks, also the free camping is now controlled by the NT parks system. We walked around and moved on, we stayed a night at another great camp spot just a few kilometres before Barrow Creek, a great backdrop of hills around us. We are now at Alice Springs, staying at the Motor Transport museum (which is awesome - photos in a seperate post We have been into Town during the day, the usual shops and visit to Bunnings, lunch at the Casino and donated a few dollars .. having been here a few times we have no interest in revisiting The Rock, Kings Canyon etc, the Billy’s haven’t been before so they have headed off for a week to do the tourist things and we intend to catch up around Coober Pedy. and Interesting Larimah Hotel

Kakadu NT - 21/08/22

Today it was a relaxed morning around camp and the afternoon we drove to the visitors information centre for a look followed by a drive to Ubirr for some rock art and walk which was very nice, especially the views from 1/2 way up the climb, we didn’t bother climbing any further, it was hot and couldn’t see the point. Around 4.30 we drove to Cahill crossing hoping to see what has become quite famous with dozens of crocs catching fish as they come over the causeway / road on a high tide, for us it was a non event with the only crocs spotted were well away from where we were. Can’t win them all. Tomorrow we leave Jabiru and head to Yellow Waters 50k south of here. We are booked on a cruise the following morning, looking forward to that.