Value Inn Darwin

... with it this morning while operating on only two hours of sleep. My flight down here was only 4 hours so not much time for a good nap to get ready for the day.
One of the only B52s on display outside the US takes up most of the hangar and honestly I was expecting something showing how aviation conquered the Outback back in the day. The thirty minute wait for a bus under the scorching sun alongside a major four lane road took longer than my actual visit ...

... boys), play Aussie Rules football – it was a lot of fun to watch. Some of the kids were quite talented, so watch out for them in the AFL teams in a few years.



On the road again, back to Katherine via Douglas Hot Springs and onto the Victoria Highway, heading West. We are finding The NT very hot and humid, so every opportunity we get to cool off in a swimming hole, we are there.







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... nowhere, so that was wicked to swim in!! I loved it soo much! After that it was back to another prison camp where this one was roasting hot!! The next day we were off to Twin Falls and Jim Jim Falls which was just a beautiful and swimming there was amazing with the falls right up high above you that you could swim under them!!

We then went with another tour guide who was cool and was more of a chilled out 3 days, apart from ...

... 8211; thing is they haven’t had a cyclone recently to check whether the features actually work and of course they hope they don’t have one.

Today we had another go at a driving range and I did manage to get a few balls in the air and even one or two out to 110 metres! That is out of 80 balls though!!!  I think I need another lesson.

5 Aug 2009

Well our time in Darwin is coming to an end – off to Kakadu tomorrow.  Have really enjoyed it here ...

... same scale as Maegs (presumably a flu shot earlier in the year saved me the worst of it). Greg was also unwell, even retiring to bed early one afternoon.

After the second day of Maegan enduring high temperatures, vomiting and listlessness a visit to the doctor became urgent. Luckily he reassured us we where doing the right thing and that double doses of Panadol & Nurofen, fluids and resting over 5-7 days would eventually see the virus ...

... tter, he puts his h*nd up to be involved.

Jill sh*mes me into completing more exercise *nd one morning I ride my bike *bout 15km to Robertson’s B*rr*cks while she runs *nd *nother time I foolishly run 30mins worth with her. The d*y I r*n, we left it so l*te th*t he humidity *nd he*t is * killer. I decide then *nd there th*t I *m never running *g*in. She runs twice *s f*r *s me during this session!

It’s che*p tickets for the ...

... and our mound of useless goods to the Apollo depot. Along the way, I felt ever so slightly like a convict on the run, keeping my head down incase miraculously, the Falcon would come spluttering up beside us and demand that we stop and give back the money- yes, paranoia had well and truly set in, this continued well until we got out of Cairns - especially since I was the chosen one to sit in the front seat and aid in directions.

Our campervan was a marvellously big ...

... of us!

Darwin

Darwin is a great city – since it was flattened by Cyclone Tracey in 1974, the city has been pretty much completely rebuilt which means there are lots of parks and gardens along the waterfront and everything still looks quite new. The city is quite spread out but it is easy to get around which is great as we have had quite a few chores to attend to.

Murray passed his service with flying ...

... of a free dinner in Darwin when I saw my hotel. It was soooo wonderful to check into a 4 star hotel, have two double beds with crisp white linen, my own (sparkling clean) bathroom with both a bath and a shower cubicle. I spent an hour in the bath washing away the camping grime before having dinner in a noodle bar and a few glasses of wine - in a glass not a tin cup.

... ra. Võtsin meelega käelt ära kella ja ei pidanud arvestust nädalapäevades, äkki seetõttu ei tekkinudki sellist tunnet nagu muidu, et oi-ku-kiiresti-aeg-lendab. Outback tekitab mõnusa far-far away tunde, kus aeg lihtsalt jääb seisma, kontoriinimesele on see täielik õnn ja rõõm :) Ma usun, et saime Austraalia keskosast ja põhjast suht hea ülevaate. Viimane päev Darwinis olles mõtlesime, et oleks võinud isegi varem edasi lennata, sest kõik vajalik oli nähtud ja vaim täitsa välja ...