So as you all know ive been in the Red Centre for quite some time, but the time to leave had come. So the Little Red Brick has moved forward and onward.

Leaving Alice i drove up the Stuart Highway to Darwin, a long 1600km journey into the Wet Season, and what a wet, it rained constantly for four whole months morning noon and night, the biggest wet on record. The car didnt like the humidity and ran like a bucket of crap.

I went into Litchfield National Park only to almost get stuck in the park due to a massive storm that lunchtime. We had to cross thirteen bloody rivers to get out. The deepest of which was about 12 inches. And these are Salty Croc infested rivers, so getting stuck in a river was not really an option.

Water swelled up through the gear stick and filled the floor at my feet, but we made it through all the rivers and got back to Darwin.

Kakadu was closed due to the massive amount of wet wet season.

After Darwin i travelled south to Katherine and then West through Kunnanurra and Halls Creek. Wolf Creek was unfortunately closed due to a massive amount of water over the road 100km down the Tanami, a real shame, but we may look at returning just to do the crater.

1800km's later, the Brick now parks in Broome, where beautiful beaches and perfect weather allowed me to retune the car and make her happy again.

Im looking at plans to do at least some of the Gibb River road, but due to the big big wet, the Kimberleys is also closed to traffic. Fitzroy Crossing had its worst flood in history and the river flowed at over 100km/hr, swelling its banks into a massive floodplain that buried most of the town at one metre deep, with some sections of the river extending to kilometres wide.

Another 3000+kms on the road and plenty more pics, the Mini is featured proudly in front of the Devils Marbles, and many other icons along the way. Now were in WA, YAY. Hell is behind us and the Territory may be visited again later to do Kakadu.

Hope everyone is well on the east side of the world of Aus.

Lockie thats only a small section of the trip.

Starting from Brisbane i have travelled almost 40,000 kms possibly more i dont know my speedo hasnt worked since i went across the oodnadatta track.

But this is the trip so far

Brisbane - St George - Lightning Ridge - Bourke - Cobar - Wilcannia - Emmdale - Broken Hill - Mildura - Renmark - Bordertown - Horsham - Warnambool - Ocean Road - Geelong - Melbourne Mini 50 - Geelong - Portland - Mt Gambier - Adelaide - Leigh Creek - Marree - Oodnadatta - Marla - Alice Springs - Extensive Travelling around Alice - Tennant Creek - Darwin - Extensive Travelling around the Top End - Katherine - Kunnanurra - Halls Creek - a bit of the Tanami - Fitzroy Crossing - Broome.

And im still going. Im thinking about how to tackle WA. Its a big state, but i know i want to get to Meekathara, and also Kalgoorlie. I also want to work in Perth and top up the account again.

So yeh, im sure its around 50,000 kms so far, when i left the car only had 1000kms on the clock. Brand new motor, rebuilt car, specifically for this journey. There are some sections where you need fuel drums and i carry 4 on the roof. 4 spare tyres, lots of spare parts, and of course lots of tools.

Looking forward to WA now.

first bit of advice is, build at least three minis before you leave. The amount of things ive had to fix, and tune, and bodge and bush mechanics has been large.

You wont find parts, or people who know anything or the right tools in the outback.