We have just returned from an 8,000km trip to Darwin and back. The first leg of the trip was as support crew for five cyclists who rode from Winton to Darwin. We averaged 100km per day on that leg of the trip. We got a good wave and headlight flash from a 130 crew cab Puma towing a trailer heading south on the Stuart Hwy (basically the same as our setup). There was a Tdi 110 (stretched to 120 the owner said) with a whopping great Palomino camper on the back at Three Ways. It was a beautifully maintained unit.
There were numerous other Defenders sighted along the way. The last before getting back to Rocky was a Series Ute approaching a low level narrow bridge west of Torrens Creek. Without a doubt the most enthusiastic wave came from the passenger in a Disco in Darwin.
