From Broome to Cairns the Savannah Way stretches across northern Australia for 3501 km. A mixture of road surfaces...gravel, bitumen, bull dust, gibber rock and everything in between make it one of 'Australia's great adventure drives' and it proved to be a little bit that way for the now experienced 4WDers from Gladstone, QLD. With the masterful driver, Jon, behind the wheel and the always-improving navigator, Kirsty, in the passenger seat, the Van Itallies drove and drove and drove...and had a lot of fun while making the haul from Mataranka NT to Domadgee (QLD) before taking a detour down to Lawn Hill NP. Places like Roper Bar, Borroloola, Southern Lost City, Butterfly Springs and Hell's Gate were visited as we clocked up a few more kilometres exploring wonderful Oz.
Creek and river crossings a plenty....although as the dry season comes to an end, there wasn't always water to navigate. But every one did have a 'do not swim' sign. This is definitely croc country.
And huge roo country. This fella stood defiantly on the road for a time before bounding off into the scrub. You probably can't tell by the pic, but he was a BIG boy....we actually thought he was a car then a cow before we got close enough to see him properly.
Great communication out here.
Sometimes when you're camping, you just have to improvise. The ground was so hard and rocky here we couldn't drive the tent peg in, so we found this truck diff-housing that someone had 'lost' along the way and used it.
The Way.
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