It's been a while between posts. what with having lots of fun and travelling, there hasn't been a lot of time for blogging. Mainly as we were out of range of Internet service and lack of power - a lot of the sites we stayed had no power or water.
We arrived in Mt Isa and stayed at the Top Tourist caravan park just as we arrived in Mt Isa, a nice friendly park. A trip to the top of the lookout was were we saw the lovely sunset over the mining area. Next morning we had planned on seeing the School of the Air,but they were away at camp, so next on the agenda was the Underground Hospital, which was very interesting. We had packed a picnic lunch and travelled out to Lake Mondarra which was very pretty and a huge amount of water there.
Our next stop was Camooweal, just before the NT border where we stopped beside a gorgeous billabong with lots of birds and lovely water lilies -there were about 20 vans parked along the waterside and we enjoyed the peacefulness there.
On our way to Barkly Homestead we stopped at Avons Downs for a morning tea break and just as we were leaving, a big truck pulled in and made a terrible noise - it had blown 2 tyres, so Dick and Rick helped him out,as he had very little in the way of tools, but we ended up spending 4 hours there.
We left Barkly Homestead and arrived at the Three Ways, then travelled south to Tennant Creek where we had been told that the fuel was cheaper, had lunch there, and travelled on to Banka Banka where the vansite there was almost full, even though there was no power or water there anyway.
From there we stayed at the Daly Waters Pub - a huge area behind the Pub - and booked in for the Barra and Beef Dinner with a live show afterwards.We enjoyed a lovely meal and the entertainment was very good - Chiller - an ex rodeo rider, circus performer,etc, etc.and he sang some great songs, told some good jokes and recited some bush poetry - we all enjoyed it.
We stopped at Larrimer at a Devonshire Tea cafe - with a rough and ready lady named Fran, it was a lovely morning tea, but very expensive at $13 a head. We stayed at Mataranka at the Bitter Springs caravan park on the Roper River. We had a swim in the thermal running waters which was about 30 degrees.
Next day we stopped at Katherine for morning tea and did some grocery shopping before heading out to Edith Falls, which was also a caravan park with no power or water. Dick had purchased a crayfish net in Mt Isa and put the net into the Edith River that night and on our way out of the area he picked it up and he had caught 2 small prawn looking things - he was highly excited, now wants to buy some more and trap some more unsuspecting creatures.
We stopped at the Adelaide River for lunch, and continued on to Darwin where we booked in at the Malak Caravan park - next morning we were asked to move as the site was booked - it was great to chat to Ange and Ellen on Skype, ringing for Rick's birthday - they were visiting Summar and Dave in Irleland for the Bank holiday weekend - they also had some exciting news that they had been asked to be Godparents to their newborn son. We also spoke to Mike and Debbie on Skype.
Today we have been resting (if you can call washing all morning - by hand- relaxing) and catching up on a few chores and deciding what to see now that we have arrived in Darwin
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