We make a dash for the coast on week 21 of our lap around Australia hoping to find a cool breeze after nearly a month in the scorching Northern Territory. We take the only road east, the narrow, bumpy, road train strewn Flinders Highway and discover the focus here is on the dinosaurs that used to roam the inland sea 100 million years ago. Townsville greets us with a gutsy […]
It’s hard to believe it is possible, but it got even hotter on our last week in the Northern Territory as we returned to Darwin, ventured east to Mary River then south back through Katherine, Mataranka and Tennant Creek. This was our last week in the Territory which was proving to be a tad too hot for us. We re-planned a way to get back to our beloved coast, ocean […]
The 19th to 22nd August was another hot week in the Territory with daytime temps hitting 37 and night times hovering around 27! We left big city Darwin (see week 18 Darwin for details of this fine city) for the coastal bush on Fog Bay to stay at the tiny rural beachside town of Dundee Beach for 3 days of R&R and got caught up in our first lockdown since […]