Saturday 28th August - Heartbreak Hotel to Darwin

Sleeping on a road train’s trailer in a swag, how Australian is that?  Justin finally succumbed to the need to sleep at about 2:30am, so pulled over for a few hours to make use of the sleeping compartment whilst we borrowed Tamara’s swag to lie out on one of the trailers.  We are so going to have to get a couple of swags before we leave.

A stop outside Materanka to deliver waste oil to a cement factory (it’s used to fire the furnace) was followed by bacon and egg rolls for breakfast, and then it was onto Katherine for a mail delivery before we finally reached Darwin at 6:30pm.  It was so good to see Mitch and Chelsea turn up in their Defender to collect us after a rather stressful 48 hours.