Darwin to Broome: Kakadu,...

Darwin is a nice city, but after the trip through the outback, landing in a city was too stressful, so after a couple of days, My old friend "Falcon" went to Kakadu National Parc in my way to the West.

Kakadu is a huge National Park (200 km x 100 km, more or less), but you can discover hips of beatiful places and learn a lot about the aboriginal culture in that land. The free walks, slide shows and explanation of the rangers was the way of learning so much about the nature and the aboriginals in Kakadu.

Helen, the ranger who guided us in the first walk, was the perfect guide to know more about the woodlands and its wonderful wildlife.

A beatiful sunset through the wetlands from one of the aboriginals rock painting art.

One example of the aboriginal rock painting in Kakadu. Behind every painting there is a story, in fact the painting is just a tool to explain that story. The reason for the story could be as variated as: education, fun, get luck for the next hunt...

Lizy, the aboriginal ranger who cooked a magpie in traditional way for all the people who wanted to try it. Of course, I was there and hungry (as always): the "aboriginal" magpie is delicious!!


Not easy to swim in Kakadu, hips of "salties", saltwater crocodile around... So you swim at your own risk...

This was a "safe" pool, just some big goanas around. Nice swim and a 80m waterfall below the pool... yeah! no way of going down the river, long jump!

One of the most amazing thins we learned in kakadu is the use of fire bush to "clean" the land. The aboginal people is the responsable of taking care of their own land in kakadu and Armhen land and the fire is the most amazing tool they use.

Keep River National Park is situaded just in the border of Northern Territory with WA, Some amazing colours at sunrise, as you can see.

In Kununurra (Western Australia) I realised that without a 4wd no way to explore the kimberley (river crossing,...). So, I left the kimberley for another adventure with a 4wd when I'll be older ;-)


What do you think about this saltie? 6.5 m long!!! I was in croc farm when they got fed: the most weird thing is the noise when the croc close his mouth, really scaring.


I miss the mountains...this is the flatest continent in the world!! And I need some mountains, this is one of the few I found, so I shoted it to remember that feeling when I'll be back.


Big fire in the highway (remember the fire culture?), not sure if natural or provoked, but really close to the road, I mean the flames were inside the pavement.

200 km to Broome and the panel indicators was doing strange things and some strange noise in the engine..mmm...bad moment to breakdown, so I arrived to Broome at 70 km/h and crossing my fingers. The alternator was done, so I spent this afternoon changing it. Two days resting in Broome waiting for the spare piece, give me time to take some pictures of the sunset over the indian ocean:



No comment... Cable beach is a real tropical beach, it reminds me the beach of "cayo largo" in Cuba, the difference is this one is 22 km long!!

From Cairns to Darwin: The outback

The drive from Cairns to Darwin is a 3000 km driving through the australian outback. Some tiny towns and roadhouses in the road and some interesting national parks to cool down the temperature of the car, body and mind. Herewith some pictures (not all!!) trying to give you an idea of the experience.


Driving in the outback is an experience completely different depending on the car you drive. Mine has no Air aconditioned, no 4wd, one spare tyre and year 89, so you can imagine... No worries!!

Sunset picture in one of the tiny towns where we spent the night, you really lost the sense of being in this world... No TV, No radio, just petrol station and some beers to cool the thirsty drivers.

Hips of km (hundreds!!) of unsealed roads made the trip so much funny (jejeje). You know I like the action and a 2wd give you so much adrenaline than with a 4wd!!

In Lawn Hill National Park, we were camped in a campground close to the river and full of wildlife as you can see (little brave Kang.). Yeah!, lots of mosquitoes too.

The gorges of Lawn Hill are an oasis in the middle og the outback. We swam and hired a canoe to explorer the river. Awesome!!
One of the holes where to swim is more than a pleasure. Not so many people there, the reason too dirt road km to drive here, only 4wd and some crazy guys.

One of the free sites where we camped beside Gregory River, nice swim in the early morning.

Full of dust and tired after the driving but happy anyway. One of the things I'm becaming really good in smiling everytime I can, australian "No worries" are the best words to describe this feeling.

Daly waters, a tiny town in the middle of the outback with a nice pub-camping-shop-restaurant-petrol station with a strange sense of humour. The SIGN says: "ANGLE PARKING, any angle mate!". Can you imagine inside the pub?.....Yes, more than funny!