At last, some downtime! We’re currently at the Lake Argyle resort having a relax day away from the road.
This is our fifth day on the road, and so far, we’ve done OK, no catastrophes, short of leaving my license in one of the petrol stations for a day (some places they want you to leave your license as a deposit…), only had to back track an hour though. Lesson learnt!
All in all though, good fun so far, stopped off in a couple of free campsites, stayed in a national park and had the luxury of powered camps every other day or so (all the sites we stayed at are on the accommodation page). In terms of the camper itself, we went through a company called Discovery Campers, which is a reseller for all the other main camper companies, and we ended up with the Toyota HiAce, rebranded with Travellers AutoBarn as a Kuga.
N.B The last post I do for this camper section will have the map of our route and a few of the spots we stayed/visited.
There’s a fair amount of room, especially if you are lightweight with luggage anyway, lots more space for food and to unpack. A couple of pictures of our camper (not the best, but shows the room):
We picked up the camper in Darwin from the Travellers AutoBarn office (in town a 15 minutes walk away from our hostel), and it didn’t take long before we had completed all the formalities (license checks, signatures etc.) that we had the camper (or as it is now called, Bridget)!
That afternoon was basically spent wizzing round the local Coles, food shopping, and getting a few extra bits like multi adaptor power plugs and batteries, riveting stuff. Anyhow, once we had spent a small fortune, it was off to Kakadu National Park (biggest in Oz) as our first stop!
We arrived pretty late into our first campsite and it was dark (and we hadn’t unpacked a light) so we fumbled our way to the bar to check-in. Pretty large campsite, had no idea where to go really and just plonked ourselves away from a few other campers next to a power block, first night of camping was HOT…. Although, it did let up about 3 in the morning, only for a couple of hours though, then the sun started to come up. STEAMY. We were glad for the showers.
Heather whipped up a quick brekkie, said hi to the neighbours (the ducks and wallabies) and set off into Kakadu proper.
