Stuart Park Holiday Apartments Darwin

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... features desert colours and I can’t wait to get home to get it framed – in the meantime it will become part of my hand luggage as I would rather not mail it.

The next leg of my trip involved catching the Ghan train from Alice to Darwin, a trip of over 1800 km and which took 24 hours. The Ghan is one of Australia’s famous long distance trains which travels between Adelaide and Darwin, basically following almost a straight line through the middle of ...

... the magnetic termite mounds yet we still managed to visit despite the area already being fiery, scorched and smoky. That's Australia...you find a way to make do. The Aboriginals and park rangers do controlled burns at the end of the monsoons so there isn't a great amount of explosive underbrush causing things to spiral out of control. But the quick work one cigarette butt will do to an area that receives not a single drop of ...

... I spat the dummy. Am I not on a holiday? This was bloody hard work, coupled with being aware that the Snickers chocolate bar supply was fast melting in the plastic barrel. Small things sometimes count. Our reward, two nights of complete wilderness, with high gorge walls and the stars and not a soul neaby. Awesome. To gain an idea of the gorge, check out this video.

So, are you gorged out yet? We are currently in ...

... to spend an evening.

Work had let me use 'The Jumbuck' at the weekends, which is a really old ute! So that weekend I had a bit of a drive around. First I went to the Parap morning market. It was lovely and sunny and there was a little band playing that sounded like KT Tunstall. There was another group of aboriginals trying to outdo them but they were pretty much pickled and were told to move on! There were all sorts of stalls selling trinkets and art to tarot readings and Thai ...

... a new camera and Jessica Maulboy was singing on stage in the shop (from Australian Idol she was the runner up)
If you get the chance to travel Australia go for it, it is amazing I am so glad we just said what the hell and did it.
Until next time take care and we may see you on the road, we have met some great people and loads of kids.

... that Darwin became old news and we arrived safely an hour later on Crocker Island. We were picked up by, Bear, a larger than life character who had no hesitation is asking, “Are you girls a couple?” and “Does everyone from the UK speak funny?” With the important things out of the way, we learned a bit more about our role for the next 10 days. Bear explained we would be living at Point David, with a crew of about 10 guys, and ...

... over the audience. I saw my first Jabiru, a black-legged stork, common to this area, and got up close to a red-tailed black cockatoo.
By this time it was lunchtime so we went and had croc burgers at the visitor centre and then I went and asked if I could hold the snake that one of the staff was parading around. It was a carpet python called Stanley, even though they've recently discovered that 'he' is in fact a 'she'! I love snakes and ...

... call it a place where he who has the loudest voice will win and boy does the idiot have one of those and to prove it while we were there the local paper reported that the local Darwin council decided to do their math and reckon if they gave the Moscow circus free rent on the land that they were going to set up the circus on they would suggest that free tickets at the front of the seating be given to all the councilors and their respective spouses and children the deal was ...

... another look at Cullen Bay Marina and we had a lovely relaxing coffee there on the Boardwalk.

On our way back we decided to have a look at some new houses out at Palmerston so we looked at 4.  It was very interesting.  A couple of things we noticed immediately was that very few houses had any gutters or down pipes.  We heard that the wet season consists of rain between 2pm and 2.10pm each day but, when it rains, it rains and just pours over the edge of any gutters that might ...