Dundee Beach Holiday Park; is it worth a stay?
While in the Northern Territory, we had a lot inland camping planned, and we decided to head out and see the coast, somewhere other than Darwin. Dundee Beach was the place we settled on, and despite hearing a few average reviews, we headed out for two nights anyway. Where is Dundee Beach Holiday Park? You’ll…
Lee and Jennys Bush Camp; pristine camping near the Daly River
When planning our Northern Territory trip, we had about a week spare, for destinations we hadn’t chosen yet. I really wanted to go to East Arnhem land, but Sarah wasn’t sure, and after a bit of reading and map investigation we said we’d visit another time. It’s a long way out there, and we didn’t…
Mt Bundy Station; a great stop in the NT
After Mataranka, we had been looking for somewhere to stay, and things to see a bit out of Darwin. Originally, the plan was at Umbrawarra Gorge, or Douglas hot springs, until the very list minute when we stumbled across Mt Bundy Station, and quickly changed our minds. Where is Mount Bundy? Mount Bundy Station is…
Sandy Billabong in Kakadu; cheap and remote camping
There are lots of places you can camp in Kakadu National Park. I was surprised to see that majority of the park has bitumen roads, even to the camp grounds, and we prefer to camp away from other people which in general means away from the blacktop! We stumbled across the Sandy Billabong camp on…
Little Roper Stock Camp; a brilliant place to stay in Mataranka
Wikicamps and Facebook provide some epic information when it comes to finding fantastic camp sites, and Little Roper Stock Camp just out of Mataranka was one of those golden nuggets that we stumbled across, that family after family raves about. This was one of our favourite places on our 3 month trip north, and definitely…
Unique camping in the NT; Zebra Rock Mine
There’s a few great spots in between Kununurra and Katherine to stop and spend a few nights, but we were a bit pushed for time and skipped many of them, choosing only to stay at Zebra Rock Mine. This is about 10km down Duncan Road, on the Northern Territory side of the border and very…
Koolpin Gorge; Kakadu’s last crowd free destination
Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory has some truly unbelievable places. Gunlom, Maguk, Jim Jim Falls and Ubirr are all well and truly worth the effort to get to them, but there’s one little problem. Every man and his dog knows about them, and they are heavily visited by tourists and locals especially in…
Lorella Springs; a one million acre playground in the NT
Many years ago, there were two places in the Northern Territory that I read about, and made mental notes of. One was the hot springs at Mataranka, and the other was Lorella Springs. We’ll call them both bucket list places, and they’ve been on our to do list for some time now. When we planned…