THE NT’S LOST LANDS
Towering sandstone spires stand sentry, daring us far off the beaten track into the Territory’s last untamed wild lands. From Borroloola to the mighty Roper River and protected by an inaccessible coastline and corrugations too deep for most, this remote offroad paradise is one of the last of its kind.
Journeys into Limmen National Park and neighbouring Lorella Springs Wilderness Park are never undertaken lightly. In this land that graders forgot, the late dry season corrugations are almost unbearable, and there are few creature comforts. But an easy ride would seem like cheating when you’ve come to escape it all and stoke a crackling campfire on the edge of some mighty emerald river.
Still, every time we rattle off the Savannah Way on this off-track run to the Roper River, the unrelenting corrugations give our Landcruiser a solid hammering. So it’s with some trepidation that we put our bearings on the line and brave the track to Lorella Springs — 140km of deeply
