The Road to Western Australia

We left Katherine and headed out on the road to WA. We free camped about 150km out of Katherine at one of the roadside campsites. We were amazed by the number of caravans parked up in each of these spots, there are so many people who are travelling Australia these days, it was almost hard to find a spot to set up camp. It was the 1^st of July, this is the one day in Northern Territory that you can buy fireworks – yes you can still have cracker night in N.T.!! Well we stocked up on some fireworks before we left Katherine with the plan to set them off that night. The only issue was that the roadside stops are that full of caravans and grey nomads who are very precious about their caravans that we really didn’t want to light any of ours around them, so we are saving ours for a better location. But other people had fireworks as well which they set off and Aidan, Cody and the other kids camped there that night had a ball of a time.

The next day we travelled on through some spectacular country side, through Victoria River and Timber Creek, we stopped at the Gregory Tree, which is a big old boab tree which is the sight for the Australian explorer Augustus Gregory’s base camp. The tree has a date inscription from when Gregory was there, and incredibly the date was July 2^nd 1856, we were at the tree exactly 155 days - July 2^nd 2011!

View at Victoria River

A couple of Boabs

The Gregory Boab Tree