2005 Western Australian trip
June 2005 saw us head off on our long
planned trip to Northern Western
Australia. We had purchased a new caravan - a Galaxy twin bed
16.5 foot single axle unit and had our trusty 2004 Nissan Patrol
3l diesel 4X4 as the tow vehicle.
As we had done the trip up the centre
of Australia several times before
we decided to get to Darwin as quickly as possible and I drove
the car and van up to Darwin and Denise flew up a few days
latter. Thus there are no photos of the trip up as I just drove and
slept, doing the trip in about 6 days.
I had started from Mount Gambier
where I was attending a ham radio
convention. My first stop was at ?????? this was a really nice spot and
I enjoyed the walk around the coastline - it was a fair step into town
from the caravan park I was in but well worth the walk.
Put in more of the trip up here
Darwin
This is a great place and we stayed
for about a week - don't miss the
Mindi market where there are all sorts of food stalls and you can buy
your food and take it onto the beach to watch the sunset. Market
operates on Thursday evenings. We were lucky enough to have a
yacht sail past the sun as it was setting .
Litchfield National Park
This park is locaed about 150KM south
of Darwin - we stayed at Batchelor which is about 30KM from the park,
there are camping spots in the park and it will save some travelling
time by staying in the National Park camping areas. The one at
Wangi falls looked good and there is swimming etc available. We
did several FWD trips around the park including the "Lost City" and the
original Blyth homestead and swam at the Sandy Creek Falls.
Roughly 10KM out of Batchelor on the road into the park is
"Rum Jungle Lake" this is a great fishing/swimming and boating spot,
there is shade and tables etc for a very plesant picnic.
