A short 15 kms or so over grey clay flood plains and then up a lovely rain-foresty track alongside a small stream and onto the Stuart Highway. Bitumen again!
A fast (for Brian, Christine and Chris O’B, slow for me) …
Category: 2017 Cairns Darwin
DAY 56 12 AUGUST MARRAKAI CROSSING AND THE CROCODILE WITHOUT A CLOCK
Almost immediately after leaving camp we passed the turnoff for the Jim Jim Road (my friend Paula remembers it well, she met her husband-to-be on a bus tour there).
Then it was passed the Paper Bark caravan park (closed) and …
DAY 55 11 AUGUST LEAVING KAKADU, MOUNT BUNDY AND GUNS
A relaxed start to the morning after being kept awake until late by the partying group tour in the segregated part of the campground next door, followed by being roused early in the morning (before 6 am) by said group …
DAY 54 10 AUGUST JABIRU MORE ABORIGINAL LORE
Back on the bikes and an easy ride up to the mining township of Jabiru. A good supermarket but the town is obviously looking for a reason to be since the uranium mine closed. A quiet night in the caravan …
DAY 53 9 AUGUST KAKADU COOINDA RESORT CROCODILE TOURS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY AND ICE CREAMS
The title sums it up.
Get up earlier than one would like on a rest day to be able to catch the 8 am boat tour. While queuing to board the flat-bottomed boat an unlucky punter dropped their mobile phone …
DAY 52 8 AUGUST MAJUK FALLS TO COOINDA KAKADU RESORT
Up before daylight to the sounds of Brian stoking the fire. I finally made a damper and cooked it in the ashes before we headed off to Cooinda Resort.
As always the ride back out along the rubbish dirt road …
DAY 51 7 AUGUST KAKADU MOLINE WATERHOLE TO MAJUK (BARRAMUNDI GORGE) FALLS
A casual enough start to the day but still beat the last of the party goers out of camp. Have sympathy for parents trying to round up teenage girls. Bounced back over the rocky road and straight up the Arnhem …
DAY 50 6 AUGUST PINE CREEK TO MOLINE WATERHOLE IN KAKADU NATIONAL PARK
Packed up as usual and headed off, soon turning east onto the Kakadu Highway.
A nice little tailwind pushed us over the first half of the ride to the Mary River Roadhouse. Unfortunately the second half of the ride was …
DAY 49 5 AUGUST KATHERINE TO PINE CREEK
Good-bye to brother Peter and Rob in the morning. They headed off to get the Toyota’s fuel line cleaned before heading home to Longreach via the Boroloola Road that we had just come up. At the end it turned out …
DAY 48 4 AUGUST KATHERINE. SOME GO TO THE GORGES AND SOME JUST GORGE
After some discussion about where to put the tents (a long term resident at the Kway Crossing Resort said ‘not too close to the fence because the locals on the way home from the pub hop over said fence to …
day 66.5 22 AUGUST DARWIN!!!!! ITS OVER
Well folks, the Cairns to Darwin Intrepid’eans made it through nearly 4000 km including 1460 km of often rough, dusty, stony but mostly corrugated roads to Darwin.
Elapsed time was 65 days.
STRAGGLINGSTU at the end in Darwin
Outstanding contributor …
DAY 47 3 AUGUST MATARANKA TO KATHERINE
DAY 47 X AUGUST MATARANKA TO KATHERINE
Pushing on to Katherine today. My brother had decided to go up to Katherine to see the gorges and spend another day with. me without upsetting the other riders by insisting on another …
DAY 46 2 AUGUST REST AND SWIM AT MATARANKA AND MEET BROTHER PETER
DAY 46 4 AUGUST REST AND SWIM AT MATARANKA AND MEET BROTHER PETER
After a short stroll with our pool noodles hired from the CP office we were at the Bitter Springs thermal pool. The idea here is loop your …
DAY 45 1 AUGUST MOLE HILL TO MATARANKA – Snorting in the night
DAY 45 3 AUGUST MOLE HILL TO MATARANKA
Bit of minor drama last night. About 3am a lot of dramatic huffing and puffing just beyond the camp. After a few minutes of this Brian charged out with his shovel and …
DAY 44 31 JULY ROPER BAR TO MOLE HILL
DAY 44 2 AUGUST ROPER BAR TO MOLE HILL
Up and at ‘em.
Chris O’B had not wanted to wait so had gone on ahead yesterday. We set him up with food for the trip and went back to resting. …