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Planet View: S15°58.134′ E127°56.371′ Street View: S15°58.134′ E127°56.371′ El Questro Station is one of the many cattle stations of the Kimberley that has morphed into more of a tourist destination than fully-fledged cattle station. To retain their pastoral lease the current managers of El Questro are still required by the government to produce a certain […]
Planet View: S17°31.420′ E128°17.848′ Street View: S17°31.420′ E128°17.848′ A few hundred kilometers south of Kununurra and a further fifty kilometers on a 4WD track (which took us two hours by itself!) took us to Purnululu National Park, the home of the Bungle Bungle Range. The road was quite a ride, nothing requiring low-range or lockers […]
Planet View: S15°46.229′ E128°43.826′ Street View: S15°46.229′ E128°43.826′ We spent a few days in Kununurra, winding down from our trip through Kakadu, Gregory and Keep River National Parks. Kununurra is around 40 kilometers west of the Northern Territory/Western Australia border, a relatively new town founded to support the Ord River Scheme when it was launched […]
Temperature: 36°C (97°F) Keep River, a remote National Park on the Western Australia/Northern Territory border, was our last stop in the Northern Territory. Keep River covers a relatively small area of around 700 square kilometers, but what it lacks in acreage it surely makes up for in natural splendor. Some of the most picturesque vistas […]
Planet View: S15°37.753′ E130°28.510′ Street View: S15°37.753′ E130°28.510′ We spent some time in Katherine (S14°19.067′ E132°25.252′)last weekend restocking our supplies and also getting a few minor items on The Tank taken care of. The Tank was due for an oil change and we also had one front hub that wouldn’t consistently disengage from being locked […]
Planet View: S13°18.690’ E132°46.933’ Street View: S13°18.690’ E132°46.933’ One of our main stops up north is Kakadu National Park, one of Australia’s most famous attractions and (I think) the only site listed as a World Heritage Area for both natural and cultural features. Kakadu is massive, it’s a third the size of Tasmania, and even […]
Planet View: S12°25.652’ E130°50.230’ Street View: S12°25.652’ E130°50.230’ We’re just about to finish up a very fun week-and-a-half stay in Darwin with my auntie, uncle and cousins. It’s been a little luxurious for us, being able to enjoy their wonderful home in Fannie Bay after getting used to living out of The Tank as we […]
I’ve had a couple of enquiries as to why some of the posts on Our Walkabout have the pictures jumbled in a funny way around the blog content. I try hard to avoid this, but the availability of different web browsers (Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox…) and different companies producing the browsers means that each browser […]
Planet View: S13°14.970’ E130°44.698’ Street View: S13°14.970’ E130°44.698’ A couple of hours drive south of Darwin lies Litchfield National Park, where we spent that last few days enjoying all the waterfalls and swimming holes the park has to offer. Litchfield’s main attraction is surely it’s array of waterfalls, Florence and Wangi Falls being the main […]
