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20231006 Banka Banka West

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Station stay just of the Stuart highway. Slow going, I’m guessing a decent headwind. Nice grassy sites. Kids found a baby brown snake or a whip snake. Not sure. Went for a small hike up the hill. Played cricket and soccer with the kids. First night in a while the […]

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20231005 Daly Waters Pub day 2

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Went for a walk through the site. Tim’s junkyard is more like a treasure chest of collectable cars motorbikes and other random bits. Some very rare and collectable pieces as well. Not sure what else happened. Went for a swim again. Talked to a family that is cycling from Darwin […]

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20231004 Daly Waters

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Two night stop at Daly Waters. Some kind of historical site with all weird bits and pieces everywhere and one of those old town pubs. Swimming pool was a hit. It even rained for the first time since who knows when. Bit of lightning too. Hopefully cools off a bit […]

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20231003 Mataranka Thermal Pools

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Few other guys moving on today. Tire pressure guy and Matt and Alisha. Kids played with those guys most of the moving. Went to the thermal pools expecting for it to really stinky with bats everywhere, but it was fine quite nice actually. Then went to the museum and library […]

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20231002 Bitter Springs

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Auto correct almost had me calling this post booty springs. Essentially this is just outside Mataranka. Seems cooler here. Water taste terrible, and this is after drinking Creek water from the previous place. Mira and Seb spent most of the arvo playing with Siena and Co. Ran into tire pressure […]

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20231001 Katherine Gorge

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Well, kind of. We didn’t really get what was going on. So we got there went to the visitor center and you really need to book a tour to get there. It’s too hot to do the roughly 5kms in this heat. I’m sure it would have been nice but […]

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20230930 Topdidj

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Cultural experience today. Manuel was the gentlemen who had a few stories to share then we did some painting, fire starting then spear throwing. I managed to get the ember from the fire sticks to start the fire. The ladies claim they did the hard work before me. Anyway that […]

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20230928 Kakadu day 3

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Headed back to Cahils crossing. Wasn’t quite the show I was expecting, maybe the tide wasn’t high enough, but the Crocs came in numbers waiting for fish I guess. Few cars doing joy rides through the crossing. Got tried fishing, think a croc got his lure and he ended up […]

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20230927 Kakadu day 2

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Early start to go to a creek system and billabong for a sunrise cruise. Was pretty relaxing, lots of Crocs and birds and fauna. Dennis with two M’s was a bit of a larakin. Favorite saying, “that will kill ya”. Then headed to a swimming hole waterfall – Maguk Falls. […]