Category Archives: Odyssey #1 2012: Australia Europe

WEATHER The dry season (April to August) is the time when Bev and I visit Groote. The average low temperature is sixteen degrees and high 27 degrees.  A climate like this beats shivering through a southern winter.  The coldest temperature … Continue reading →

Few Australians, when you mention Groote Eylandt, know where it is. Guesses range from off Tasmania or the Western Australia coast, only a few say the Northern Territory.  It’s understandable that people don’t know because it’s not all that big; … Continue reading →

I am writing this entry on Day 24 Friday 4th May as we wait to board the plane for Groote Eylandt.   When the aircraft wheels leave the tarmac for the flight to Groote Leg 1 of our Odyssey will have … Continue reading →

We are staying in Katherine with Paul and Sam for another night. We met them when we visited son Tim in Numbulwar, an Aboriginal community on the east coast of Arnhem Land. Sam was a teacher at the community school … Continue reading →

The Hi-Way Inn, our wet day rest camp,doesn’t really cater for the likes of us when it comes to cooking. There was no camp kitchen, only a barbecue.  To be able to cook I manoeuvred one of the barbecue hot … Continue reading →

As I write (6-00am) it is still raining. It rained all night and I’m glad we decided to put our tent up.  I’m also glad we are not back down the track travelling on unsealed roads as rain like we … Continue reading →

It was hot and humid at the Borroloola Camp last night, in fact it was the warmest and most humid weather we have had so far.  I guess the temperature was hovering around 30 degrees and humidity 80% but this … Continue reading →

Last night I wrote that I thought the Heartbreak caravan park might be a good place to have a rest day, but not so. A very noisy boring plant drilling for water began work on the campground so we decided … Continue reading →

Last night we slept well even though the occasional truck rumbled by.  Early this morning I spoke with the driver of a very classy rig who had on board a huge dump truck destined for Port Hedland in northwest WA.  … Continue reading →

Old donkeys like me want to take a sunrise photo but don’t want to get out of bed some mornings so I take my camera to bed with me.  I find it difficult to believe there are people who have … Continue reading →