Luma Luma Holiday Apartments Hotel Darwin

... think he minded the bikini clad models too much!

The next day as we picnic-ed before setting off from Gunlom, our hitchhiker happened to sit close by to us and did the old 'oh, fancy seeing you here' and asked where we were off to next. We weren't going far so said we'd take him again. We were amazed when he went delving into the forest down the road from the campsite to try and find his stuff (quite a struggle). From what we could gather (during our ...

... been wrapped and TNT’d home!

Small world amazing moment! We had wandered down to the marina and were enjoying a nice cold one when I said to Rob – that looks a lot like David’s boat Southerly (the boat I did 2 America’s Cups on in Auckland) – and sure enough, there she was! I lassoed the captain and it was interesting to hear what the old girl has been up to in the six years since David sold he

... vogels) voorkomen. Het is een maand na het natte seizoen en daardoor zijn veel wandelingen langs de rivier en langs de Billabongs gesloten . Niet vanwege de overstromingen maar voornamelijk vanwege de krokodillen die nu nog makkelijk kunnen oversteken. Er zijn hier twee soorten krokodillen, de zoetwaterkrokodil (wordt hier Fressy genoemd) en de zoutwaterkrokodil (de Salty) . De zoetwaterkrokodil is in principe niet ...

Well we finally made it to Darwin, well the edge of it anyway. This caravan park seems pretty good - was definitely one of the best for value - especially after our 10% discount with the Big 4 membership. Was nice to have a lazy day today - went to the shops to pick up some food and the boys looked at the toys at Big W. Even got the ...

... run by a very passionate old man. Between him and his wife they have spent 70 years constructing a perfect indoor reef environment. He has had to re-build the place three times due to cyclones (including Tracey). The aquarium is very interesting, and we enjoyed looking at the all the different fish (including an 80cm Barramundi). Our favourite was definitely Priscilla the crab. Known as a decorating crab (and described by the man as getting ready for the Darwin races ...

... it so we must be making good progress. A pit stop at Longreach gave us a chance to see the Qantas 'Hummer' parked in the desert. This is the birth place of Qantas, but confusingly, just about every settlement within 50ks claims also to be the place. First board meeting, first flight , first scheduled flight etc etc etc. We had now reached the greatest distance between fuel pumps and set off with plenty left of our 150 litres and 370ks to go to the next ...

... Aussie road markers! Foxs, dingos, huge lizards, emus, millions of termite mounds etc, etc. 6.30pm. Yaaay, Mt Isa. We quickly found a motel and went for a walk to relieve numb bums. A very early night, after, dare I say, Subway for dinner. Sun.19 Apr. Mt Isa, Camooweal, Katherine, Darwin-1596k's-16hours. Today the driving was split into thirds...Poor Dave scored the first third and the last. 4.00am. Up and off. 6.40am. Crossed the border ...

... aus beobachtet haben. After a lazy Sunday on the beach, balcony and in coffee shops, we had to say good-bye to Port Douglas early on Monday. As our flight departed from the international terminal in Cairns, we were advised to take the 8am transfer for our 12:45 flight. Of course, it was very quiet at the airport and we had far too much time. The flight to Darwin ...

... Just checked the word count there and I've just passed 4000 and am on my 6th page on Word!! I didn't write this much for most of my assignments at collage! Anyway off I go and hope you are all well and good and ready for that steak for dinner! Claire and I are back on the noodle and fruit diet and are going to try and do another month detox with no booze. Both have made a solemn promise to our livers that we are done with the goon but then... Peace and good times to all. Noel & Cl

... hold the sheeting down eventually rusts and in comes the water, in our case, running right down behind the picture frames. One of the perils of living in the tropics! The other thing we did was take a bunch of our electrical gear to Erica's nice air conditioned, cyclone proof office! Laptops, unused lenses, external hard drives and Ipods. No point letting a cylone get to them if in managed to rip our rusting roof off or worse the ant deciding our external hard drives ...