Daniel and Marysia around Australia: Northern Territory across to QLD

Never sure enough when checking equipment

Well it certainly has been a long time since I last wrote on our updates. Only because we've been travelling from the Northern Territory to QLD in time to catch up with friends flying up from Melbourne to do a Cattamaran Cruise on the Whitsundays. So foot to the floor and no time to waste we had to make a lot of tracks pretty fast.

Our youngest friend on the trip!

But before leaving we managed to catch up with our new friends Kasia, Marian and Nel (only 4 years old). We managed to stay in the same caravan park for the night and enjoyed a few drinks, herrings (provided by Kasia) over some great conversation and another guitarist! It was a great night but too soon over. They headed They were into their 3rd month of their 12 month journey heading the way we came, west. We heading onto QLD. We exchanged all the neccessities in order to keep in touch. It was a great treat!

Heading down from Katherine we took 2 nights at Mataranka to enjoy the thermal pools. An absolute oasis in almost the middle of the centre of Australia. We promised to come back again. As mentioned, time savvy we stopped overnight at a free campover before making a stopover at the Barkly Homestead. A bit of washing done, lunch at the Homestead Pub, before heading across towards the East.

Three Ways Junction..fuel up!

The temperatures overnight had dropped to around 8degrees. It was the first time since our travel began that we had experienced such temperature since last winter! With the frequent stops that we were doing, lasting only for one night, before moving on we caught up on some music practice. However, I was to say the least a little frustrated, as we had no power so I couldn't update my blog for fear of running down the battery on the computer, which meant we couldn't watch the evening's movie! Oh the choices we make can sometimes be really difficult, wouldn't you say?? Ha!

Our routine changed during this time. We'd get up early, have breakfast, hit the road for a couple of hours, before stopping over for a cup of tea, fruit and a game of cards. We were so enthusiastic that when we got to Mt Isa we bought ourselves another 2 sets of playing cards (for the Whitsundays) and UNO game cards. We promised ourselves that when we decided to head back to Darwin we'd do it through the Centre and do the things we missed. Another reason for us to come back hey??