For those interested I have been in the “Top End” of the Northern Territory, an area of Australia more than twice the size of Texas and with a total population of less than 250,000. In the south of the Territory is the “Red Centre”, with Alice Springs, Uluru, King’s Canyon, some mountain ranges. It’s hot and dry. In the north is the “Top End”, a semi-tropical area with Darwin, Kakadu National Park, and some other stuff. Kakadu is where the Australian scenes in the Crocodile Dundee movies were filmed. It’s a massive national park larger than some countries, got some good stuff in it but hard to access. Opinions differ, a lot of Territory locals call it “Kaka-don’t”. In between the Red Centre and Top End is mostly a heaping helping of nothing. It’s 1,000 miles from Darwin on the northern coast to Alice Springs, another 400 miles to Coober Pedy in SA, that I TR’d recently, and another 500 miles to Adelaide. Alice Springs (population 25,000) is the largest city on that entire inland route of nearly 2,000 miles.
Here’s sunset over the Kakadu wetlands. The previous photos above are from Litchfield National Park, closer to Darwin and offering some pretty awesome swimming holes.
A little cheating but I was here (Delta Lake) about a week ago finishing up a 2 week road trip that went thru Zion, Yellowstone and Grand Teton with a couple other stops on the way. We did this hike on our last day and it was amazing, a little difficult because you have to traverse fields of boulders that aren’t on an official trail but well worth it
Yup it is Grand Teton. We did two hikes there and camped out on some service road right outside the south entrance of Yellowstone and at a campground in Teton. I enjoyed it a lot, both the hikes weren’t very busy and it was beautiful. Yellowstone was extremely busy so that really sucked and we didn’t spend too much time there. Also we were driving thru there right after some heavy winds so there was some smoke and haziness blown from fires out west that made it a little less enjoyable.
Zion was pretty awesome and the hikes we did there were great.
We hiked to angels landing but it was closed due to covid so just hiked up a little further up the trail. This is the view of angels landing from where we stopped for a break
We did meet a kid up there who said he went around the path closed sign and hiked it anyways earlier. We saw a couple of people hiking it and wanted to go but my sister and our friend did not want to take the risk
