Life on the road

..has been pretty good actually. It gives you a sense of achievement, slogging for hours along hot dusty tracks, swerving round eagles munching on kangaroo-flavoured roadkill and getting well out of the way of road trains carrying several hundred cows, then camping under the stars for free. We've now got a book which lists all the free camping areas in Australia - an essential purchase after the financial excesses of the East Coast and in particular Cairns.


This was our view for several hours each day. We had bought an i-trip type thing to play our ipods through the radio - if only it didn't lose the signal every time we went over a bump (which are not few and far between on Outback roads)





We did see a real cowboy at one stage


The Queensland - Northern Territory border. Halfway - woo hoo!


Decisions decisions...


A thermal pool, and we're not that far away now...


Just 300 or so kilometres from Darwin, we slowed down to a crawl and enjoyed some of the scenery. This is canoeing in Katherine Gorge.


The closest I've been to a crocodile in the wild. This is a freshwater croc though - not a man-eater. So they say.



Of course, 2800 km after leaving Cairns, as soon as we hit Darwin city mode kicked in and we had a pricey lunch at a Caffe Uno. Oops. Time to get out of the city again...