Our Australia trip

Our next stop is going to be Devil’s Marbles, a collection of boulders best seen in sunset or sunrise. It is apparently a busy camping surrounded by the boulders and you’re advised to arrive early. It being 320 km from Barkly’s, we decide to leave early. So at 8.30 we’re on the road, heading west […]

Well luckily Marjo corrected me or this post was called Burke’s Roadhouse. I have a problem with names I guess. For the ones under you noticing, this is our first post from Northern Territory. On 14 August, 12.45 pm with 301,550 km on the odometer we crossed the border between Queensland and Northern Territory. I […]

Today is the day that the love of my life turns a year more beautiful. Marjo is the most selfless, caring, loving, sharing woman I know. That is, not counting my mother and daughter of course. We have been together for over 30 years and during that significant period of our life I have seen […]

Soon we leave the Burke Developmental Road and arrive on the Barkly Highway (or Overlander Way) from Townsville to the Stuart Highway. We stop in Cloncurry, a small town, for groceries, sending a photo backup to Joran and to fill up with water. The shops have not much and we decide to stop in The […]

It being Sunday, we thought we do the right thing and sleep in so when we open the door at 8.30 am after breakfast and washing we find that we are the only ones left on the campsite. So leisurely we feed the dogs, take them for a walk, pack up, empty the cassette, empty […]

On the way back from Karumba we didn’t see much more until Normanton. We needed to buy some bread and diesel before heading towards Cloncurry. The BP station seemed closed on Saturday after 12 pm. Then we found that not only the town had run out of beer, also diesel seemed to have evaporated. The […]

All wanted to see the Gulf of Carpentaria so we trekked the 80 kilometers from Normanton to Karumba knowing that we had to take the same way back. The road was actually quite nice, no single lane parts, no road trains, plenty of road kill, sandy planes with real dust storms, fields with endless dry […]

From the Gilbert River we want to move to Normanton. Although we have seen our fair share of dust, we seem to do well with free campings. The lack of organized order (in our heart we are still rebels) and the ability to let the dogs off-leash sits well with us. We continue along the […]

We left Bedrock at around 10 am but not until we returned the silver bracelet that Marjo found in the ladies bathrooms. We topped up the fuel tank and Marjo visited the local gemstone store annex miniature horse show (couple of ponies) and a bird park. I meanwhile arranged the final affairs for the settlement […]

It is now time to get serious. Our up and down and again along the Wet Tropics of North Queensland was beautiful and enjoyable and it’s now time to move on. We want to see so much more in the north and need to be gone at around early October to escape the heat and […]