We stopped for lunch in Katherine NT. We knew we were just a few hours from Darwin but we were starving. We circumnavigated the town and settled on the supermarket as the most likely source of fresh food. We bought some fruit, an avocado, some bread and settled down outside the Visitors Centre in the shade for a picnic lunch. A tanned fellow on a bicycle was under the next tree. How gutsy, i thought, cycling in this weather. And with all that gear he must be riding a fair distance. Was he heading from Darwin south? or to Darwin north?
Jeff James is in fact on the final leg of a 15 month journey on his bike from Barcelona to Melbourne. His website tells more www.whereonearthisjeff.com and is a most entertaining read. He loved having people to chat to, especially as we picked his brains about the ferries between indonesian islands that we will soon be visiting. If you see him on the road, make time for a chat and congratulate him on a truly epic ride.