It's strange to be on the road - and on my own- again. I left Em at Sydney domestic airport while I boarded a plane bound for Darwin, via Cairnw. Tou get a great view of the harbour when you fly out of Sydney. We also flew over the Blue Mountains and the Hunter Valley on the way up the coast to Cairns.

The flight stopped off in Gove - a mining town halfway between Cairns and Darwin. $500 million of bauxite ore and Aluminium is produced and sold from this facility a year. The mine is on land occupied by the Yolgnu Aboriginalk people. Apart from the information (all taken from the predictable upbeat promotional poster of Nabalco, the Gove Project managers), there's nought here, well that you can see from the airport anyway

Cairns to Darwin is apporximately the same distance as from Darwin to Alice Springs

To tomorrow