Northern Territory

We spent the morning with a young Aboriginal man. He took us up into the bush and showed us all the different kinds of “bush tucker” that the Aboriginal people like to eat along with some rock art. For morning tea, he prepared us a kangaroo tail, first singeing and scraping off the fur, then [...]

Today was the most physically challenging. Up early again to hike the rim of Kings Canyon. This involved a 20 minute ascent straight up what is affectionately known as “Heart Attack Hill”. With a bit of sheer determination and some stubbornness, I made it to the top. Following this was 8km around the rim of [...]

Up at 4.30am ( no rest for the wicked). On the road to watch the sun come up. Our vantage point was closer to Kata Tjuta than Uluru, but a stunning view of both. In the cool of the morning we tramped the “Valley of the Winds Walk”. On the way we stopped for a [...]

I was picked up from my backpackers in Alice Springs at 6am and we drove 450km through the Northern Territory Desert to Uluru (Ayers Rock), stopping off at a Camel Farm and a Roadhouse at Mt Ebenezer and Curtin Springs (the HQ for a massive cattle station). I think the thing that struck me the [...]

The Northern Territory of Australia is immense. The farm stations are generally divided into 1 million acre blocks. Incredibly, the biggest farm in Australia is the same size as the country of Belgium! The children living in these remote areas are logistically not able to attend school everyday, so they enrol at the Alice Springs [...]

Here I am at Alice Springs, right in the centre of Australia. I loved the TV programme “Flying Doctors” when I was growing up and so I knew I definitely wanted to check out the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) Visitor Centre. Travelling so many thousands of kilometres in the past weeks has made me realise how vast [...]