Becky Wilde’s – Stumbling Across Australia – Week 2 – Meteors…

Hi gentle reader,

As we Stumble Across Australia, I would like you to know we only really have a couple of goals that are keeping us in the direction we are taking. Darwin Northern Territory, and Western Australia’s Coastline. Therefore we are heading North and then West. It’s important to know the direction in which you want to go…

A recap of my last email. We left Victoria, travelled to Rob’s parent’s house in South Australia, and headed North. There are many ways to travel North, but recent bad weather has meant many real options were closed as were the roads. Through the centre was the only option to Darwin. I left you at a roadside stop north of Port Augusta. 1000km from our starting point, Geelong.

In the morning, we travelled North on the Stuart Highway towards Alice Springs. Not wanting to either rush the trip or drive too long in any one day, we did another roadside stop after about 500km. just a one nightery, to break up the drive. The following day moving on to do another 500km to finally cross into the Northern Territory before stopping in the national park for a couple of nights.

We stopped at Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve. Hard to imagine the impact of this crater, looking at the size of the hole and the blast of the impact was eye opening. A rest day was in order. Upon leaving I needed to check the lights for the caravan before heading off, you know, just a once over before we hit the road. Well, we had an indicator not working. It’s not like you can just go to the local hardware store to buy them anyway, but we are on the road and the nearest dealer is in either Sydney or Melbourne.

Having already visited Alice Springs before, and not liking our experience, we only stopped in for a grocery top up before continuing to Ti-Tree.

On the way we stopped at a little town where some artists had created a couple of magnificent sculptures of Aboriginal man and a woman with a child. The Aileron – Woman and Child and Man sculptures were impossibly large. Fantastic work to create these sculptures.

Ti-Tree showed promise as a cheap stop over, however, the look of the shanty town on the edge of town made us less comfortable to stay there, electing to stay at the Roadhouse Caravan Park. Nothing special, just safe and off the road.

Anyway, that’s my lot for this email. We will pick up next week with more of our adventure Stumbling Across Australia.

Stay Safe, Sane, Happy and Healthy.

Love,

Becky Wilde, XXOO