Leaving Wangi it was a quick ride along the bottom of the scarp on the western edge of the NP until re-entering the NP and climbing back onto the top of the tableland. Then down and out of the Litchfield …
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DAY 62 18 AUGUST WANGI FALLS
The ride back through the middle of Litchfield NP to the Litchfield-Daley River turnoff was a lot easier the second time around. While chewing on a 600 ml frozen chocolate milk for lunch a NP ranger pulled up to check …
DAY 61 17 AUGUST BATCHELOR AGAIN
Quickly back on the bitumen and soon turned north on Dorat Road for Batchelor. About twenty kilometres along near a private Land for Wildlife nature reserve I was a bit slow reacting to wiggle on the road and ran over …
DAY 60 16 AUGUST A LIFT OVER THE CROCODILES, SAND AND PAST TIPPERARY STATION TO THE LAST WILD CAMP
Back out over the sandy track onto the main 4WD track which was mostly rideable if only two wheel ruts in some places for 10 km until the Reynolds River crossing.
Rangers Helga and Darius had made me promise not …
DAY 59 15 AUGUST CROCODILES, RAGING RANGERS AND SPRING FALLS
Getting a bit toe-y now as the end of the trip gets closer. Up and off across the tableland to the Tolmer Falls lookout. The falls and gorge are home to endangered bats so no entry but an interesting enough …
DAY 58 14 AUGUST LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK AND FLORENCE FALLS
Restocked at the town shop and the better provisioned service station we headed off to the Litchfield National Park. The joke in Batchelor is that Litchfield is a much better but less known park than Kakadu, which has so many …
DAY 57 13 AUGUST BATCHELOR
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) …
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 …