Northern Territory
Chloe Writes: We landed in Darwin at 4.30am and by lunchtime we were kitted out with a tidy camper van and were already on the road. The campsites are all really well equipped with fantastic facilities, the only thing to watch out for is the Wallaby’s when they sneak over and steal your food. We spent our first night in a campsite in Darwin but decided to make a move to Litchfield National Park the next morning. What did we do in Litchfield, visited waterfall after waterfall and cooled off with a swim. Although a similar temperature to Asia, the nights are cooler (thank god or sleeping in a van might be slightly uncomfortable) and the days much less stickier with a very dry heat. Perfect camping weather, although the farther south we head the colder it’s gonna get, but for now were sorted.
From Litchfield we headed down to Katherine to swim at yet more waterfalls and look at some amazing scenery, stopping first at a butterfly farm where the main attraction was feeding the rabbits (sorry there are lots of pics but they were so cute), and there were loads of them. After walking up to the view point (there are lots of these in Australia), and looking at the spectacular gorge, it was back on the road for a full-on day of driving to enter Western Australia before dark, when all the roos come out to play and dodge campers, unfortunately not after being relieved of all our fresh fruit & veg we had just stocked up on at the WA border. Oh well…pasta and sauce it is for dinner 
Pete Writes: After spending the last 7 months in Asia living out of a bag we are now finally fending for ourselves, It’s great to be able to ruck up anywhere we like and open the boot and put a brew on! We managed to get a real deal with the van, with only 35,000kms on the clock it’s a real dream to drive. Although with the vast distance between towns and sights I am sure we will add another 10,000km by the end of our 5 weeks here.
We have been on the road for a week already and have seen lots of cool stuff including waterfalls, massive land formations and lots of wildlife (including road kill!) When we were at the butterfly farm I made a new friend in the form of a parrot. As much as I tried to shake him off he was determined to stay, that was until he finally flew away with my sunglasses (I did manage to get them back though).
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Our View for the next 5 weeks
We aptly named our van after Chloe’s cousin Uzi
Chloe in the driving seat
Florence Falls
Chloe Swimming
Pete getting soaked
Katherine gorge
Moon & Clouds
A 6ft plus magnetic (something to do with the sun?) termite mound, made from spit & poo!
Pete has a friend
Pete still has a friend
….. more bunnies… so cute!
Butterfly
And another
Sleeping bats
Boab tree, they have a very large trunk
Tags: Australia
April 21st, 2008 at 9:25 am
Hi both
Campervan looks nice - don’t get too used to it, or you won’t want to use your tent when you return to UK!
Mum & Dad xx
April 21st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
G’day! Your campa looks cool and Chloe is in the drivibg seat where a good wife should be.
Ozzi looks very hot ,we could do with some of that sun here. I bet Choe wants to take some bunnies home as well as a the parrot for Pete.
Hope you’er both snug now in your campa, what a great way to travel
Loads of G’days and love Mx
April 30th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Hi Mum & Dad C,
We love the camper and are already talking about getting one, but im sure it will all be forgotten about when we hand it in and move on to the next adventure.
Lots of love x
April 30th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
G’day Mum E,
Were sharing the driving and swaping every 100k as it can really boring other wise.
Aus is very hot at the moment and perfect weather for lots of snorkelling & diving, which is exactly what we are doing at the moment by the beautiful west cost.
The bunnies were sooo cute i wanted to take them all home.
Lots of love, chloe x
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
Glad to see you joined the Travellers auto barn club too! We loved our van. You need to be strong when it’s time to give it back - I was like a bird giving away it’s nest! Aw!
xxx