Across The Top

Dad and Mike

Been awhile - but I plan to be around a long time !!

Hi People ,

Its now 2103.

Been sometime since I added some pictures.

Heres some new ones.

Lots of things. Touring Kakadu, skipper of Duckabout and

Linda and I just drove 10000 klms around OZ with our trusty Hyundai and Teardrop camper.

Also some pics of family - and granddaughter Erin

Enjoy!

Australian Heli Safari March 2011

Conde Nast Traveller Magazine Story

It's late March 2007.
I meet up with Tom Huth - writer from Conde Nast USA and Len and Dianne - photographers from New York. The aim is to travel north from Broken Hill into the Simpson Desert to Birdsville , then around Lake Eyre to Coober Pedy and finish in Alice Springs.
The story we are doing will focus on outback pubs, characters and landscapes.
Landrover Australia provided us with a near new Discovery to do the trip.
5,000 klms later -- not even a flat tyre - faultless performance!
We did not count on rain in the desert - this made the trip all the more memorable!!

Conde Nast Traveller magazine will publish the story in the near future.

Inaugural Ghan to the Never Never Journey

March 2007 saw 17 intrepid travellers board the Historic Ghan railroad for a journey to Darwin - then on into the Never Never country of the Northern Territory.

We retraced the epic journey of Jeannie Gunn who travelled from Melbourne to Darwin - then south bound to Elsey Station by train, horse and buggy and sometimes on foot, over a century ago. Her story is well recorded in her classic tome - 'We of the Never Never.'

We met the Aboriginal land owners of Elsey Station, swam in clear springs , witnessed the Wet Season at it's best - and stayed in classic bush accommodation.

Due to the overwhelming response - the trip will be run again in 2008.

See some photos of the journey below...

Ghan to the Never Never

Wangi Falls - Litchfield National Park - February 2007

Hi travellers,

Have been on the road a bit lately!

Last few months we have been in the Top End of Australia on a few assignments - also a trip to the southern states. Of note - I did a five day four wheel drive safari across the Top into Kakadu, Katherine and Litchfield with a couple from USA.

Accompanying us to write a story
about the awesome Wet Season was award winning Travel Writer - Dan Scott.

You can read Dan's account by clicking on
http://travelaustralia.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=229911

Edith Falls - Nitmiluk National Park

Great time to be here - so few people!!

Dan and a black headed python

Nourlangie Rock

Sunset - Victoria

In February I did a tour through Victoria - my home state.

My great great grandfather settled in Bendigo from England and my Mum was born in Ballarat --so it was great to get back to my roots.

I even swam in a stream that I last swam in as a little tacker nearly 40 years ago!

Bushfires had ravaged some of the areas we travelled through - and we hope for recovery and more rain in drought areas.

Bushfires - Victoria - King Valley

Here's looking at you kid - oops sheep!

Poodle on tour - Daylesford

Sovereign Hill - Victoria

Sovereign Hill - Victoria

Dinosaur footprints - Broome

Had an exciting trip in a Hovercraft this year to view these dinasaur footprints embedded in the rock.
Location : Broome WA. 

Hovercraft - Broome