Homeward Bound

In two days we will have traveled from one edge of the country to the other, flying thousands of kilometers across four states, taken off five times, and I will have been strapped into my copilot seat for nearly 12 hours. We’ve seen the breadth of the Australian landscape, from the turquoise waters off Broome, the red ridged desert waves of the great sandy desert, the spectacular Olgas and Uluru, the salt plains of Lake Eyre, before coming into the Melbourne cityscape under a spectacular sunset. Read More

Go wild

Our last night before hitting Darwin and I decided on a little treat – my thank you to the pilot for flying me around Australia. My little splurge was Wildmans Wilderness Retreat, a little lurury nestled in a slice of private land in the middle of Mary River National Park, just West of Darwin.  Read More

Down by the billabong

By chance we spotted a poster advertising a cultural festival 17km away. After a very long day exploring Kakadu, we jumped on the 5pm shuttle bus down the rabbit hole. While advertised as festival, a more appropriate description was that the local mob had invited people to join them for an afternoon family gathering by the waterhole.

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Because we can

Many people asked us, why Groote. Our response – either ‘why not’ or ‘because we can’ – left people with no reply.

For us, the Northern Territory epitomised the saying that life is about the journey, not the destination. There was no reason for us to go there per se, only a desire to see things not seen before. Read More

Pit stops

Departing Adels Grove we shortly crossed into Northern Territory on our way to Groote Eylandt. The flight route via NT was the most difficult to plan, without many clear destinations. Our two pit stops ended up being unscheduled and unplanned – places to stop, sleep, eat and see the world along the way. Read More