Aurora... The sun is rising!

We made it to the east coast! Finally... This is a little taste of what we left:



And this is where we are now:

Beautiful waterfalls inside tropical rainforests....



A butterfly...
Nate fixing the starter in Mount Isa... It was really hot. Besides a few electrical issues, the car has been doing really well. Better than either of us expected.


Watch your ankles in the water!


Nate trying to decide if Ol' Red will make it to our camp spot...

She's made it through a lot... This was about a foot deep. She made it.Cleaning my feet in flood water on the way by. Monsoon rains are pretty cool.


Ok, That is all we have for you right now. We are having a pretty good time. Much better now that everything is green and wet. Hills are also helping our morale. I'll update again soon. Miss you all!

Love, Nate and Dy

The Territory

Alright. We made it to the Northern Territory! Out of WA and all that hot desert once and for all! It is still quite hot, but now we've added in the all too necessary element, water. It's the wet season in these parts, so I guess the cyclone warning is high. We haven't seen anything that even meets the tropical storm standards of New England, but we've heard of bigger. We both really like it up here, at least in comparison. It's tropical, lush and green. I'll post a few photos here.

Lovely seashells....

A little butterfly decided to hitch a ride around with Nathan for a little while.

Victoria River, I think.

A boab.

From here we head to Kakadu National Park. We put some new tires on the car (burned through the last set of fronts due to gross misalignment), everything else on ol' Red is going strong. The mystery problem hasn't come back. Kakadu is pretty huge. If you google it, you'll find some gorgeous photos, far more beautiful than either of us can take. Kakadu will take us at least a few days, but we may take a little longer if it's nice. I hear it's great for bush camping. After Kakadu, I think we head to Cooktown, but we haven't fully decided yet. We just have to be in Brisbane in time to get our visa's to Viet Nam and in Melbourne in time to catch our plane. Alright, hope this was a sufficient update. We're safe, cars running.

Love, Nate and Dy

Who steals dinosaur footprints!

Alright. We should be leaving Broome today. We had a few things to do to the car (thanks Nick). Here are a couple pictures of us in Broome. Both were taken at Gantheaume Point (not sure about spelling there). The tide varies by about 8 meters, this is high tide. During low tide, there would be no water under Nate at all. We found that little shady spot that I'm sitting in under a rock. This place is so hot that we have to crawl under rocks to stay cool.



Ok Darwin, here we come.....

UPDATE: Broome

I know it took a while to get any sort of update on here, but what can I say, there is not much out here, not much internet. I just went through the photos I've taken so far. I thought I'd post some up here, but it turns out they are all crap. This is the best I've got - Nate looking very Miami Vice at the pinnacles.


So, we are currently in Broome. You can find it on the google map in the last blog entry if you are interested in looking. We have an unreasonably long drive ahead of us to Darwin, 1900 km, right through the Kimberleys. I don't know how we'll survive it. It's hot up here. When I say hot, I don't think you really understand what I mean. It's hot.

Alright, I'll leave it at that. If you want any more details, just message me. I'll try to post a better update with some photos before we leave the area, but no guarantees on that.

Love,
Nate and Dyanna

The Route

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