Howard Park

We are the Sears family from Essex, UK and we are off on the adventure holiday of a lifetime to Australia, stopping off en route each way. We are Helen, Howard, Abi (15), Claudia (12) and Elliot (10) and this is the story of our travels.

Just about ever other day I would go to Fred Howard Park to do my walk/run thing. Please refer to my running blog Rubenesquerunner.wordpress.com for ...

... stopped in Woodgate Beach for a while but ended up staying there the whole day.We also had famous Mammino Gourmet Ice Cream and tasted SUGAR CANES!Howard is a nice little town with only one pub and a shopping centre.Sounds like a home town for dad! ...

CROC COVE – DARWIN November 8 Back in Darwin we made one more trip into the city from Howard Springs. We spent several hours at Crocodile Cove: a reptile centre right in the city centre. It really was a fun day. We watched a python slowly swallow a ...

... erstmals enteckt als soldaten einem Indianter-trupp in die Berge folgten. Dann 1890 gründete der Kongress den Yosemite National park. Die Besucher strömten ins tal aus aller welt um sachen wie den 2695m hohen Halfdome (5 grösster wasserfall in der ...

... , since there were practically no other park inhabitants – but nice all the same.  At least the park was more organised than Howard Springs (which is saying something) into tree divided areas with power and (boil before) drinking water. Our ...

... de Mc. O en wat smaakte die hamburger onwijs lekker. Na dit kleine geniet momentje op naar een camping in Howard Springs. Daar zat een iets groter park waar we onze pijlen op hadden gericht, na een korte zoektocht hadden we dit park ook gevonden. Bij het ...

Just a short trip within the Darwin area to make tomorrows trip to Adelaide River a few dollars cheaper. Day spent by the ladies doing their laundry and sitting around reading. No photos today, but lots tomorrow. Fuel:   ...

... take a photo but couldn’t quite get it.  We are staying a proper Big4 campground tonight, in an area called Howard Springs, just outside Darwin.  The strangest thing happened as I cooked dinner and Gary Skyped his niece, a peacock walked ...

... , just to see what it looks like under a blanket of snow. Once our 25 minutes was up we continued to National Park village and tried to check into Howard's Lodge but were informed by a fat bloke that we were too early and no, we couldn't just chill there ...

... and they suggested it was muscle damage and bruising, possibly a cracked rib and to rest, take ibuprofen and get in a hot tub. Luckily Howard's Lodge has an enclosed tub you can book out for yourself so that was great but I was in a lot of pain and ...

... go and then come back to check in. While they were playing I set up with the little laptop to do some blogging. The water park has 3 areas – a pool area, a water play area with the big bucket and a waterslide area with 3 slides. When the kids came ...

... 12, we had a slow get up. Brekky and pack up –mind you we were still gone by 9.30. We began our drive to Howard Springs aobut 25km south of Darwin where we will stay for 3 nights and see what it’s like before making a final decision on where ...

... was a Dennis Jackel.  His wife was a Hill. Spent the whole day on this tour.  We were collected from the caravan park in a mini-bus for the drive to the boat jetty where the Adelaide River crosses the Arnhem Highway.  Almost immediately we ...

... (my new name for the GPS – because she gets us there hassle free!) to take us there we headed to a 2 hour free car park and walked up the street to a building and inside was Cove. It was really good. You enter through a tunnel and are confronted by ...

... I let the kids watch a movie until it was time to head to the pool to cool off again. We decided to head to Leanyer water park for the afternoon and were once again surprised at the lack of people, we pulled up and got a park so close to the entry. After ...

... GPS and off we went. We have found the GPS has been great for being able to find our way around. On the way I found the Leanyer Water Park which is a free water park in Darwin, I will come back on the way home and check out times to come back tomorrow. We ...

... result all 3 following me while I picked out a couple of things! We left there and had one last visit to the Leanyer Water Park before heading back for dinner and bed. Tomorrow we are off to Kakadu. Till Next Time Take Care The Ross’ Stats for ...