The road from Burketown to Normanton is notorious for it’s 80km unsealed section but I found it to be almost better than the sealed road before it. The only notable feature on this stretch is Leichhardt falls, which was pretty tame when I was there and where I saw my first wild crocodile – a […]

After spending the better part of five days here, and not seeing what I came here to see I thought I’d be disappointed and feeling like I wasted my time, but the truth is that I don’t feel either of those things and in a way I’m sorry to be leaving. So I didn’t get […]

After 3,056kms I’ve made my first destination, Burketown at the bottom of the Gulf of Carpentaria. I guess I should explain that one of the “points” of this trip is NOT to race from point to point, but to take time to explore the places and people of interest that cross my path. To this […]

Firstly, to begin before the beginning I’m going to share some of my experiences in translating what was not much more than a thought bubble into reality. The starting point was to realise what I didn’t know – which was pretty much everything! While I had spent a lot of my life travelling most of […]