Back Across the Territory

 When we first began planning this trip, we put in pace a couple of alternative ways to get home, should the need arise as we were going around. Never in our dreams did we consider having to come back up through the north of WA and crossing back over into the Northern Territory. Ah well, stuff happens and here we are back into the Territory.

There was quite a  line up of caravans etc going into WA as we passed through into the NT.

Anyway, we were able to continue  and our first stop was at Timber Creek, where we celebrated our first hurdle back towards home, with morning tea and of course muffins etc at the bakery.

It was then through to our first nights stop was back at Victoria River Roadhouse. Here, we refuelled the vehicles and had a comfortable evening before it was time to begin our journey back towards Queensland.

These two photos above show the beautiful colours in the ancient mountain ranges as we left the Roadhouse just on sunrise (around 7am) and began our journey towards Katherine and our nights stop of Mataranka. It was whilst here at Mataranka that we filled in our Queensland entry border pass form, and surprisingly it was quite a simple one to complete -yay! All good, and we can head for our home state.

Plenty of those long flat straight roads that we encounted on the trip over to Western Australia, but we just got them in reverse this time, and it is quite interesting to see sections you have travelled over from a different perspective.

For our next nights stop, we decided to chose a different place (for a change)  and stopped off at Renner Springs. We have called into here for fuel and a bite to each on other occasions, but not to stop the night. This is actually 'Renner Springs' and what a lovely peaceful area it turned out to be.

From here we continued south down the Sturt Highway until we came to the 'Three Ways' which is where we turn east onto the Barkly Highway to head towards Queensland.

As you can see, the road heads north (the way we had come) to Darwin, the way south is towards Adelaide and the way east is heading into Queensland. MOre long straight roads as we head across the Barkly Plains.

However, we do have a nights stop at the Barkly Homestead which is about half way across towrds Camooweal and Mount Isa.

It has been a long trip from the bottom of Western Australia to get to this point, and all of us are feeling very tired, however, our next day will see us back in Queensland and I think that is lifting our spirits a little.

'Til next time,

June