Northern Territory

Monday 13th July 2009
The tyre place was my first stop today - at 7am I rocked up, handed in my old tyre and $370 later drove away with a new Tyre. By 8am we were driving out of the caravan park heading towards Katherine. Not long after leaving Kununurra we crossed the border into Northern Territory where we stopped to take a photo before continuing on to Timber Creek to top up fuel. The scenery has changed somewhat since we left WA, a lot more rolling hills and much lusher vegetation. The rivers on this side of the border actually have water in them and it's starting to look a lot more like how I've always imagined the Tropics. As we crossed the border into NT we also lost 1.5hrs as we are now on Central Standard Time. With the time difference and all that it was already lunch time when we pulled up for morning tea. By the time we pulled up for our nightly stop, at a Rest Area called Mathesion, it was really too late for lunch so we had snacks and started the cooking fire. Sunset is now after 6:30pm - a big improvement over the 5pm sunset in Kununurra. Once we had good cooking coal Ron's new Hill Billy camp oven was put into action to make a beer damper. With the beer damper pronounced a success we proceeded to cook Ron's Barramundi Fillet and then the mince and potatoes in the fire. Once all this food was consumed it was time for desert, Berries on chocolate cake and ice cream.
Tomorrow we'll continue onto Katherine, which is only 100km up the road, and then to Douglas Daly for our next stop.