We hit the road on Monday from Alice and leisurely made our way north, no stress as we did a few hundred K's a day. It's good to be on the move again, having spent the last year in Alice we had itchy feet. The initial idea was to spend some time in the Alice to see if it were a place to forge a new life. Not to be, just didn't "feel" like home I guess.
The road is pretty straight up the Stuart highway, our first camp was at the Devils marbles, we love this place so we set up camp. A couple hours later some kids turned up and made a lot of noise and proceeded to set up camp right near us, complete with a couple of dogs! We left in the morning.
Managed to get some nice photos of the Devils Marbles at Sunset.
From here we headed to Katherine to stay for a few days, stopped at Mataranka for a while and had a swim at Bitter Springs. The weather was Very hot here, a fine introduction to the wet season up here.
Bitter Springs
All the way up the Stuart Highway there were flying ants as the wet weather and heat had hatched them. Every time we stopped for fuel we found we had to clean the bugs off the windscreen, radiator and front of the car. Even got a piece of fly screen on the grill to prevent the radiator getting clogged up. Took minutes for the windscreen to become covered in the little critters when back on the move, you had to resist the temptation to use the windscreen wipers as they are so greasy and you couldn't get the screen quite clean.
Pesky Flying Ants
We leave Katherine tomorrow for Darwin where we will be staying with my uncle. We have flights booked for Asia on the 11th February from Darwin. So that is our next move, Asia for a month.
