Radisson Sas Seaside Hotel Darwin

... only is the heat getting to me but the prices in Darwin are absolutely insane and burning a hole in my wallet. I arrived at 4:40am and hunger was gnawing away at me by the time I got to town at 6. So I peeked inside a coffee shop where bacon, eggs, and toast were $12. Our money and theirs is about on par so imagine paying that back home. A breakfast sandwich with just an egg and cheese was an Aussie bargain at $8. But add a buck if you want the thing toasted ...

... Kalbs, d** naechste v**sucht, beide Hint**beine mit dem Lasso zu **wischen. Respekt!

Als Zuschau** sorgt das bullriding fu** den groessten Adrenalinausstoss: Wenn ein massiv** Bulle nach dem Abwurf des Reit**s nur wenige Met** entf**nt in d** Arena steht und anstatt brav zum Tor zu trotten kampflustig mit den Hufen im Sand wuehlt und den Kopf senkt, ist man schon froh um den – mehr od** we***** stabilen – Zaun...

... and how it was that the city came about was that they were trying to find a quicker way of sending message back to England.

So the race was on between Victoria and South Australia and the prize was 2,000 pounds a lot of money in those days when u consider the average weekly wage was about 1pound, So Burke and wills set off from Melbourne and Stuart and co for Adelaide, lucky for the south Australians Stuart found Palmerston on the top end and established a camp ...

... was heavily dedicated to aboriginal art and craft Everything there was very professionally laid out.

We also rocked up to the Darwin Golf Club and as we hadn't played since Richmond (that was the course that was just scrub, dirt with the odd clump of grass and greens that were black as they were an oil and sand mix), we decided to use their driving range to see how the strokes were faring.  My shots were all off to the left so Steve spent most of the time giving me some tuition ...

... egg it was delicious. We headed to Litchfield National Park. Coming to the Northern Territory I didn't know much about the area, but was open to finding out. We went to the termite mounds. One side of the road has Magnetic Termites, the other has Cathedral Termites. Magnetic mounds are named as they look like tombstones, as they are pretty flat, and they go from North to South. Cathedral ones on the other hand are more colourful. Apparently the mounds are ...

... th*t I w*sn’t suffering with the h*ng-over th*t inevit*bly c*me with the l*te night.

When we fin*lly re*ched Free Spirit *t 10*m, everyone w*s re*dying themselves for * d*y *t the W*ter P*rk in Le*nyer. We hurriedly got our site set up *nd drove out to meet *ll the g*ng there.

The W*ter P*rk is *n *wesome venue for f*milies. There is * regul*r pl*yground *nd the w*ter pl*yground h*s * huge bucket *bove the equipment th*t const*ntly ...

... a quel point nous etions bien sur la route. Nous sommes donc reparti le jour meme.


Quand le Quebec et la France se rencontrent…

De retour sur la route, toujours en direction du nord, nous avons fait la charmante rencontre de deux couples de Francais voyageant dans de grosses Westfalias. Nico, Josselyn, Julie et Delphine sont vite devenus de super compagnons de voyage. Nous avons continuer notre exploration du Nord de ...

... reading what I did today I did not realise two things, 1, the same attack force that hit Pearl Harbour hit Darwin, 2 the Japanesse force this time was twice that of the one that hit Pearl Harbour and dropped twice the tonnage of bombs! What also amazed me was the lack of foresight by the command and Darwin was attacked 9am in broad daylight (just like Pearl Harbour) and it had no defence operational other ...

... That night we decided to at least make use of the spacious boot of the car and sleep in it - one of the reasons we had bought the car, we put up the curtains and rolled out our sleeping bags, laid down our pillows and went to brush our teeth. Upon my return to the car, to my absolute horror, I spotted a huge cockroach darting across the arm rest as I shone the torch in! The fact that this was definitely my least favourite insect in the whole world meant that we ...

... päris hästi välja kukkunud, lisakilosid pole (veel) tunda olnud. Niisiis teel Kakadu poole peatusime Adelaide'i jõe ääres, kus korraldatakse turistidele ägedaid paadisõite krokodillidest kubisevas jões. Jõevesi on pruun, mistõttu õnneks vee alla ei näe, muidu oleks vist päris hirmus! Kroksid olid suhteliselt loiud ja pistsid aeg-ajalt silmad vee alt välja, mõned tegelased viitsisid end nende nina all liputatava lihakäntsaka järgi veest välja ka hüpata ja alles siis oli näha ...