Darwin – Sunny, Hot and Historic

Thursday It was only an hours drive from the Adelaide river into the centre of Darwin. I’d booked us into the Adina  Darwin Waterfront Apartment Hotel, which is located in the middle of the extensive ‘Darwin Waterfront” precinct. This area is lovely, somewhat similar in style to Darling Harbour in…

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Kakadu National Park and Jumping Crocodiles

Wednesday We woke to another beautiful day looking out into the canopy from our treetop bedroom. Another BBQ brekky before we packed up and left the Hideaway behind at around 9 am. We wanted to see one more nearby waterhole before leaving Litchfield, it was only a few minutes drive…

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Uluru Rendezvous

Three fun days with five fantastic friends! I must add thanks here to Steve and Greg for use of some of their photos. Day 1 The next few days were very much anticipated. Back in September last year Neil and I had been tossing around ideas for holidays, the dodgy…

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Kings Canyon – Watarrka National Park

Day 1 – Conquering the Rim Today was one of the days we’d really been looking forward to as we planned to hike the iconic Kings Canyon Rim walk. The official classification of the walk is Grade 4 – Moderate to Difficult and “The rim walk starts with a difficult…

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Driving the Red Centre Way

Today was planned as the big “Scenic Drive” of the trip and it lived up to all our expectations. It started with an attempt to fix a minor hiccup – somehow I’d managed to leave behind my warmest jacket ( I’m really out of practise with packing) so after checking…

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A Town Like Alice

Well thanks to the COVID 19 Pandemic, 2020 was a bust for travel, but we’re determined to do our bit in 2021…so here we are in the Northern Territory for two weeks! A few years ago we had a short 3 night break at Uluru to see the Field of…

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