Arriving at Derby our first real stop around civilization we went on a flight/boat tours to the Horizontal Falls.

Michael asking kindly the pilot if he could sit in front of the little 8 seater seaplane we had to fly with in order to get to the place....

After a rough, bumpy and corrugated dirt road and around 4 km of hiking we reached Mitchell Falls - all the effort was worth it!!! 

See it for yourself

Mitchell Falls still with plenty of water - it would be fantastic to see it in the wet season...

Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia. It starts in Litchfield National Park and flows generally northwards to Clarence Strait, being crossed by both the Stuart Highway (at the township of Adelaide River) and the Arnhem...

Gunbalanya (also spelt Kunbarllanjnja, and historically referred to as Oenpelli) is an Aboriginal community in west Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia.

The sealed Arnhem Highway links Darwin to Jabiru, the town within Kakadu National...

After 12 Hours flight from Dubai we finally arrived at Sydney Airport moving on to Ballina/Byron Bay where we got escorted with a shuttle bus to Byron Bay to pick up our stuff and kimberley karavan campertrailer. Taking it easy the rest of the day...

Today we walked for almost 6 hours (nominated time 5 hours, but we are a bit slower because of too many photo/video stops) to the fantastic lookout called Cape Raoul. It was a long walk but fully worth the effort. We walked through rainforest - sometimes...

As we didn't find a good place to stay in Hobart - except a showground, where we had to leave before 7am, because of their sunday market - we decided to drive a bit outside Hobart and stopped in the historic little village Kempton.  We found...

We asked one of the merchant at the salamance market to play the didgereedoo. I ended up buying one, so now no bad excuse to learn how to play it :)

Mt Field National Park is one of Tasmania's most loved national parks. The park has a wide variety of scenic features and wildlife and offers a great range of facilities for day visitors. We went with one of the Rangers on a night expedition to spot...

After a nice day at Lake Sct. Clair National Park - almost without any rain that day, we ended up camping at Bary's Lake, between Sct. Clair Nat. Park and Hamilton. Very nice and peaceful.

The rocks around Rocky Cape had joints which eroded more rapidly than the surrounding rock and created caves. When sea levels dropped to where they are today, the caves were left above the shoreline, making them ideal for coastal rock shelters.

A funny little wombat in the Tarkine National Park

After spending a rather windy night at Stanley Beach, 6.11 the sun was up. Very beautiful and peaceful - except the wind :)

I noticed that every time a picture was taken of me, its always has got something to do with at (chocolate) dessert :) true I love chocolate, especially the chocolate au fondant at the only good restaurant in my home town in France, so I guess there...

After arriving friday the 30th of december we are now over our jetlag and ready to get started on our new adventure 2012. We stayed a couple of days in Albury at our dear friend Anne Haywood, who made us feel like a home at her lovely place.

We are...

Just before heading to Australia, we wanted to find some snow at home back in France. We decided to go for at drive and go for a small hike up the "Col du Jou" and we had a magnificant view up to the "Canigou" Mountain. Mount Canigou, 2784m high,...

While travelling we were had just finished our lunch in a small place called Robe at the South Coast of Australia as a journalist from ABC News came up and asked us about what we were doing in a place like this. Listing to the recording and find out...

Eastwards from the township of Rainbow Beach you can walk along the beach and see enormous, impressive sandy cliffs, which can be up to 200 metres in height. Erosion has exposed a palette of as many as 72 different coloured sands which have been produced...

In november 2010 Michael and Beate took off downunder to experience Australia's nature and beauty, people and culture with a kimberley karavan, which is specifically made for travelling off road, totally self sufficient and eco-friendly. Our main...

This blog is about our adventure. We set out to visit some of the many beautiful places in the world and this is the place where we will tell you about it all. We will try to post here as often as we can and of cause we will include lots of pictures....