The big track - Savannah Way completed.

Days 35, 36, 37 and 38  15^th to 18^th May.

Yesterday as we motored in to Katherine we completed one of our 4WD ambitions, to complete the trip across the  Savannah Way. The Savannah Way is the highway that runs across the  Savannah Grass lands of Tropical Australia from Broome to Port Douglas or Cairns. I use the term “Highway” loosely as this road is mainly dirt and the majority of the traffic consists of huge road trains or intrepid 4WD people, with the odd foreigner on a push bike thrown in for good measure.

We began our conquest of the Savannah Way four years ago, in 2008, when we left Katherine, motored on down to Mataranka  and then turned left and headed across to the Gulf country of Northern Territory and Queensland. (We threw in a fishing trip at Karumba for an interesting break in this trip). We knew then we would have to complete a trip over the Gibb River road and continue on to Katherine to complete this track. Yesterday was that day!

We can now cross off our bucket list, The Tanami dessert track, the Gibb River Road and the Savannah Way. (oh by the way, we have already discussed our next track which would have to be the Birdsville track)!

We spent two nights at Lake Argyle.

This immense wall is made of rock and clay sourced from the site.

Dam Wall from a different perspective, I hope they built it well!

Taken from a lookout towards sunset. This is only a tiny part of the Lake.

We were only able to take this photo after we traveled 7.5kms over a very bad 4WD track!  BUT it was worth it!

 A beautiful caravan park with an infinity swimming pool, which, (you guessed it) blends into the largest,  inland water way in Australia, Lake Argyle.

Infinity pool! Would you believe it was 30 degrees out but the pool was cold!

We are continually astounded by the size of everything in the Kimberley, and the words, vast, immense, magnificent, awe inspiring continue to roll off our tongues but they still don’t really do this country justice.

We have spent our time in Katherine restocking the stores and the batteries (ours) ready for our next adventure at Litchfield national park.