I heard the haunting lyrics of this song by Lana Del Rey recently on the radio: Will you still love me When I’m no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me When I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will I know that you will Will you still…
This is part two of ‘The Road Ahead’ as we ventured into probably one of the most remote wildernesses in Australia, The Kimberley in north-western Australia. It consists of ancient, steep-sided mountain ranges carved through with sandstone and limestone gorges and steep ridges from which the extreme monsoonal climate has removed much of the soil. This…
Like me, most people travel regularly these days, and not just within their own state or country, but more and more are travelling abroad. So when I was asked recently which five travel destinations would I like to return to, it really was a difficult decision, because I would love to go back to all…
Let me introduce you to my dog ‘Jada’, she is a ten year old Labrador with the most gorgeous personality. Recently we took Jada along on our ‘adventure of a lifetime’ on our six month tour circumnavigating Australia by caravan. We were a little apprehensive about taking her with us initially, but as it turned out…
We crossed the border into our home state of Queensland after leaving Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The countryside was stark and barren with wide expanses of flat plains with little vegetation and a roadside that was littered with dead Kangaroos. Discovering Outback Queensland was a revelation. We found it to be largely affected…
Departing from the tropical ‘top end’ of The Territory we headed south on the Stuart Highway, also known as Explorer’s Way, through the centre of Australia. The landscape suddenly transformed from lush greens to red dirt and vast shrubby plains to rocky Spinifex covered tablelands. We soon realized that we were in the real ‘dinky die’ outback…
After touring the Victoria River region we arrived at the town of Katherine which is described as being the crossroads for travellers north, south and west and prides itself on being the ‘adventure’ capital of The Territory. It is situated on the Katherine River in the ‘top end’, 320 kilometres south-east of Darwin. Katherine boasts ten national parks and…
Known as one of Northern Territory’s premier fishing areas, the Victoria River region which encompasses Judbarra/Gregory and Keep River National Parks, is situated between Kununurra near the WA/NT border to the west and Katherine to the east. There are many off-road tracks to explore through diverse and ancient landscapes and many remote roads through stunning National…
After being wowed by the ‘Wild West’ of Australia, we crossed the border into maybe the most quintessentially ‘Australian’ of all the Australian States, the Northern Territory. Despite its large area of over 1,349,129 square kilometres, the Northern Territory is sparsely populated. It only has a population of 233,300, making it is the least populous…
A vast land virtually untouched and unchanged by man, is the Kimberley region of the extreme north of Western Australia. It is described as being one of the world’s last great wilderness areas and has been selected as one of the top ten holiday regions by the Lonely Planet and won Australian Traveller’s Reader’s…