Banka Banka to Mataranka

June 25th, 2006 at 12:00am

I highly recommend ending a long day of driving with a nice relaxing soak in a thermal spring whenever possible. I’ve done just that today on my ride north to Darwin. I arrived here at the Mataranka Homestead Tourist Resort at about 2pm, and could have continued driving for another 2 hours, but why? I spent the afternoon exploring some lovely walking tracks, and then had a nice soak in the thermal pools, and that to me is much better than just getting a bit further down the track. There was really nothing to see along the road today, and all I can say to that is thank you Apple for iPods and iTrips. I am noticing a very slight change in the terrain as I leave the desert behind and head closer and closer to the tropics – the termite mounds are getting bigger, the trees are getting taller, and the landscape is slowly getting greener. I sense that I am now closer to the ocean than the red centre. It?s about another 500km to Darwin from here, but I am thinking of taking 2 days to do it because there is still another interesting spot to check out on the way.

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