Showing posts with label Katherine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Katherine. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Road trip part 2: Darwin to Broome

Day 6: Drive to Katherine (4 hours)
Left Darwin this morning to head for Katherine via Litchfield National Park. Unfortunately, about 45 minutes down the road, i realized my bag wasn't in the car....so we had to drive back to Darwin in order to get it. Turns out it had fallen out of the car when we'd left the door open earlier in the day. Then, because we used so much petrol, we went to ggo grab more and in our urgency i broke the glove box getting into it. Luckil Meg saved the day and fixed it. EVENTUALLY we did end up at Litchfield Park and headed to Wangi falls which spill into a swimming hole. 
              

So we spent an hour or so swimming under waterfalls and then had a famous mango cheesecake that wasn't NEARLY as good as Miia's (shout out to Miia for her sweet rasberry swirl cheesecake). Then we ended up in Katherine later in the day. 
                                                    

Day 7: Katherine to Kununurra  (6 hours)
Woke up early this day to do a short hike up Katherine Gorge. It was beautiful, and along the way we ran into this older woman from Perth who told us we couldn't miss out on swimming with whale sharks...and so an idea was put in our heads that wouldn't quite go away. 
              

Later that day we passed into Western Australia and through the quarantine area where they took our oranges from us =(
                                   
On the bright side, we had forgotten about the time change going into WA, so we ended up having enough time to detour down to Argyle Lake and the Ord River. We stared at a lake that was 18 times the sze of Sydney Harbour and swam in a river that had both crocs and rapids, but hey, what Aussie trip is complete wihtout that? =]
 

Day 8: Kununurra to Fitzroy Crossing (7 hours)
On our way to Fitzroy, our brake fail light came on....so we stopped in Halls Creek and grabbed some brake fluid to fix er up. THEN, as we continued on our way, the battery light came on. hahah of COURSE. So we made it to Fitzroy lodge, went for a swim and then enjoyed watching the State ofo the Union match betweeen Queensland and NSW up at the lodge. We had decided to wait til morning to see if we could get Bessie started, and then go from there.
 

Day 9: Fitzroy Crossing
HAH so not the best plan on our part. We got up and got the car started in the AM, and got her out of the caravan park and 5 minutes down the road right in front of a one lane bridge and then she decided to die. So, we spent the day in Fitzroy waiting for her to get fixed up by a local mechanic. Eventually they figured it out (seomthing simple) and we headed a bit further down the road to a free campsite for the evening,
 

                                                    

Day 10: Drive to Broome (3 hours)
This was a lovely day. We drove the 3 hours or so left to Broome, got to our caravan park, and then wandered up to China town for a while. Then later that evening we went to a delicious Thai food place called SOM THAI RESTAURANT. hahahhah okay. but yeah it was good. Then geared up to watch the movie Bad Neighbours at Sun Pictures Cinema which is the world's longest running outdoor cinema. It was AWESOME.

                                               


Day 11: BROOME
Just a chill day of beach sitting at Cable Beach. The water was like 30 degrees, the weather was perfect, and the waves were awesome. SUCH a nice day. Then we finished the day by watching a few movies at the caravan park.