We had originally intended to spend a couple of months travelling across southern Australia after the FJ Cruiser Summit before arriving home in late November/early December. However our plans unexpectedly changed when we learned that we needed to be home by the end of the first week of...

The 2016 FJ Cruiser National Summit was based at Bow Bridge, which is located between Walpole and Denmark, and we arrived there the day before the event officially started. Quite a few other Summit attendees, some of whom had also travelled from eastern Australia, also arrived early and it...

We’d seen lots of wildflowers growing along the sides of the roads we’d travelled over the previous week (some of which even looked like snow) and having heard that this year was the best wildflower season in the last 10/20/30 years (and even living memory by some accounts!) we...

In September 2012 I took part in the my second Postie Bike Challenge (PBC) and I was one of more than 60 motorcyclists who rode a ex-Australia Post Honda CT110 motorcycle almost 3,400 kilometres from Perth to Broome over a period of nine days. As Ron hadn’t taken part in that PBC we...

Our first destination after leaving Broome was the Dampier Peninsula via the Cape Leveque Road. The first part of the Cape Leveque Road is sealed but this is then followed by almost 80 kilometres of unsealed road of highly variable condition. When we travelled it many sections were either...

Our first stop after leaving Keep River National Park was the quarantine station on the NT/WA border where we had to hand over all of our fresh fruit and vegetables and containers of honey. Fortunately we knew about this well ahead of time (there were lots of signs along the highway from...

While we were in Darwin we made the decision to defer visiting Kakadu National Park until next year when we will combine visiting it with a 4WD trip thought Arnhem Land. With that decision made we then decided to focus on some of the other National Parks in the Northern Territory: Litchfield...

After leaving Adels Grove we travelled along the unsealed Gregory Downs/Camooweal Road on our way to the Northern Territory and to spend the night at the Barkly Homestead Roadhouse. We had originally intended to spend the next night at Elliott but found a good recommendation on WikiCamps for...