Some things caravans just cannot do...

Since our last entry to this blog, Caleb and I have learnt some lessons about what our van can and cannot do.

1. Spontaneously back into place
2. keep out all the dust
3. Keep out ANY dust...
4. Travel through rocks, it must bounce over them
5. the door doesnt stay together when bumped on rocks in the middle of a creek

You would think that the map saying 'unsealed highway' with the national highway indicator '1' would mean the road was pretty good. Think again. The road between Lawn Hill Np and Borroloola is not such a road. The travel guide wasn't kidding when it said 4WD recommended. Five creek crossings and countless corrogations later we were still 20km from Borroloola when the sun went down. At least we made it to the Northern Territory!

We learnt from our trip to Lawn Hill NP that our van is not the greatest at keeping out dust. At a nice free campsite near Gregory Downs we had to beat out the grey nomads trying to buy our stuff as we cleaned it, and put up with about 6 of them telling us 'you should have taped up your vents!' Yeah, thanks for that, we kinda realised it from all the dust inside our kitchen cubboards!

Lawn Hill was beautiful though - great place to swim and some good walks as well. We have come to realise on the Savannah Way that Australia is a diverse place. The Gulf country is nothing like the east coast. Unfortunately we had no luck on the fishing front at Karumba or anywhere really, but thats ok. We are having a good time.

Yes, the road to Borroloola was tough, and we did have to cross a creek that was half way up Calebs thigh deep - the deepest one yet - with the van. This turned all the dust to mud, and didn't we have fun cleaning that up! We stopped at Mataranka - a perfect oasis to get ourselves together a little bit.

Now we are in Katherine, hoping to find work and possibly experience a NT wet season.