Category Archives: Northern Territory 2022

We have been mentioning the cold weather a fair amount recently and once again another colder snap was due to make its way across our path bringing with it some rain as well. So we decided to head north and drive the 750km up to Yulara. There were a couple of alternative routes where weContinue reading “Uluru & Kata Tjuta National Parks”

I must admit we didn’t really know what to expect when we drove into Alice. We had not planned anything other than booking our campsite and just thought we would play it by ear. The Northern Territory was always somewhere that we thought we would do post Griff due to the number of National ParksContinue reading “Alice Springs”

Having successfully driven the Oodnadatta track we have felt a bit more confident about our overland driving ability and so decided that rather than driving up the main road and joining onto the Plenty hwy we could head directly east along the McDonnell ranges and then take a “short cut” along the Binns track. AsContinue reading “Ross River”

Our first 100km of travel out of gem tree caravan park was frustratingly boring as we had let our tire pressures down to combat the corrugated dirt roads only to find ourselves driving along perfect bitumen!!! This meant we had to keep our speeds low and there was actually an audible cheer when the bitumenContinue reading “Plenty Highway”