The Journey So Far
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South From Townsville
With only a few weeks to travel before a planned (northern ) summer break back in Canada, the weather app has taken over as our “compass” of sorts. Simply put, our aim was to maximize the hot weather at a time when both the season and direction we were headed would be...
South From Cooktown
Comfortably ensconced in Cooktown, the recent drama on the Cape York track behind us, it was time for a reset of sorts. It was now July, we had a month before flying back to Canada in August and the beautiful Queensland coast lay ahead of us. Our unforced early exit...
Return From The Cape – The Kindness of Strangers
Regular readers will likely recall our recent travels on The Gibb River Road and the Oodnadatta Track. Both are actually on the way to somewhere else - there is, then, much more beyond the final destinations on those two tracks. Not so the Cape York...
Cairns To Cape York
No matter where one looks around the globe, there’s a “highest”, “lowest”, “furthest south”, “furthest north” ( and so on and so on ) place that folks want desperately to visit. Australia is no exception and of all points on the compass the big one is indisputably the...
The Gulf Country
From historic Daly Waters we’d switch directions again - this time to the Carpentaria Highway and on east towards the Queensland border, but not before stopping in for a night ( as most travellers do ) at one of the most famous outback pubs in Australia...
The Top End
Completion of the Gibb River Road moved us ever further north east in WA - almost to the Northern Territory border in fact. Leaving WA this far up brings you pretty close to what locals simply refer to as “The Top End” and it included several places we were keen to...
