Claire and I had only been in the NT for a few weeks, but we wanted to get out and see what there was. It was a dry wet season, but even then, most places were closed. We went down to Litchfield National Park to look at the waterfalls, way before I knew to look up access reports. But it all worked out, we got to swim in Florence Falls, and of course there were some great waterfalls.
2,791 km across five days, four nights
We stopped in Charter’s Towers, Mt Isa, Tenant Creek, Mataranka – with a stop to the Daly Waters pub!
We took both our cars, theorising that if one broke down at least we would have the other. But they both made it no worries.
There had been rain recently and the desert was a lot greener than I imagined.
I definitely look back on it as a bit crazy, hopefully I won’t do another road trip that long without stopping to enjoy what’s around! It should be a four month trip, not four nights 🙂
Mataranka Thermal Springs
As I was heading away to Darwin, Andy and Shae took me on a last fishing trip out to the Whitsundays. We didn’t get anything, just a bunch of small fish. We explored a small beach, it’s just so great being out on the water amongst the islands.
The Peel’s boat on the beach. We didn’t catch anything worth photographing.
Always scary fishing at the end of December in Airlie, and sure enough, we got rained on. But it wasn’t too bad and was one of the best trips we had done.
As soon as we moored up I dropped some bait over the side and pulled up a 45cm sweet lip – my favourite. No one could believe that was where I got it, but hey, I’m just a pro.
If I hadn’t gone so hard on the piss the first night I might have been able to fish a great spot where my mate Judda pulled up Indonesian Snapper after Indonesian Snapper. All thanks to my home burley I will assume.
Good fun.
Got some huge crabs
Never thought I would be uploading this photo on a website, check out the abs
This site is generally a site for all of my Australian adventures, but how can I resist writing about one of the best things I have ever done?
Claire and I went to Fiji in August of 2011 and it was fun, as most overseas trips are. The highlight was definitely the Kayak trip we took. They take you into a village, participate in the kava ceremony, it is fun. Then the kayaking down the rapids begins.
The difficulty was perfect, everyone stacked once or twice, very challenging but nothing dangerous. The scenery was amazing, we passed waterfall after waterfall, huge tropical forests on large hills, passing some villages where they lived with a blend of modernity yet still sustenance farming to a reasonable degree.
After the kayaking was done we took a motorized boat the rest of the way, it started pouring rain, but it was a warm rain, and I was loving every minute of it.
Claire in action
Me easily dealing with things
Waterfall we stopped at