Roadtrip to darwin

Melbourne to Darwin, a trip trough the central part of Australia. This is the best way to see the oldschool Australia. I Picked up my best mate ait at the Melbourne airport. Finally, we planned to travel through Australia a couple of months ago but because of unfortunately circumstances we had to postpone. We packed our brand new Mitsubishi Magna station wagon executive V6 with swags and the usual camping stuff. A swag is like an outdoor sleeping bag that you can set up in seconds and protects you from flies, snakes and eagles. Once you have slept in one you never want to use a tent anymore.

It is a 4000 km drive to Darwin, and there is a lot to see but also a lot of nothing. Trees, red dirt and asphalt are our best friends here. At the moment we are driving on the Stuart hwy which was build during the second world war. Back then it was a dirt road to connect the small towns and the airstrips. The day we started it was fucking cold outside, during the night almost freezing, now 3000 km up north the sun is shining. We are also very pleased with the possibility to visit natural warm thermal pools instead of showering at the red rooster (Australian KFC) or not showering it all. Ait is still walking in his trousers that he also wore when he was sleeping with the homeless in London.

There are some camping areas aside the road where you can camp, but that’s not good enough for us so we avoid those. Instead of that we sleep in the desert between dozens of dead dried out cows, abandoned airstrips and devil rocks. The story goes that ghosts are living at devils rock, they try to take over you body and there is no way to escape. That is why this story is a bit boring so far; my body is taking over by an petrol sniffing aboriginal. The rocks itself are amazing and you wonder why and how those stones got there.

We passed the ayers rock, alice springs, thermal pools, the east macdonnal national park and much more. And are now heading for Kakadu national park. A great park with the most divers wildlife, hopefully crocs don’t like swags.