8 itchy feet

Friday – the day Greg made the last blog entry tuned into a bit of a debacle… He took the car in at 830am to have the windscreen replaced expecting it to take 2 hours or so and didn’t return to us until 230pm… The car was about 2km from the city so he did manage to wander around, but alas he had taken no sunscreen so spent his day crossing from one side of the road to the other to avoid the sun AND he was too miserly to buy himself lunch! Needless to say he returned to us a little grumpy having survived on only two coffees from McDonalds.

That day was redeemed by an afternoon visit to the Leander Waterpark – a free park in suburban Darwin which had numerous waterslides, a pool and play equipment with water etc. We put together a bit of a picnic dinner and the day finished well. Greg still won’t talk about the windscreen incident, insisting he has put it behind him. Oh and Greg and I did sneak off to the deck chair cinema – thanks Granny!! Continue reading “Days 2 to 4 Darwin to Jabiru” →

Wooohooo! Emma, Amy and Oliver arrived a couple of days ago. I’m not sure who was more excited. It’s nice for the shoe to be on the other foot when it comes to greetings at an airport. As we are now all together July 6 we shall declare day 1.

The van park is great. Your choice of three diffent pools. I haven’t run for a few days now, mostly cause I haven’t felt the need after pulling Amy and Oliver through the water, swimming laps with Oliver on my back and making numerous trips to the teenager infested loos with one or two children perched on my shoulders, back, front or various combintions thereof. Continue reading “Day one – let the fun begin!” →

In Cloncurry I trotted off for a little jog down a dirt road to the west right next to the van park, got three km in and came to a small crest where upon a mine opened up before me. Didn’t look like a huge operation but I guess that can happen in this part of the world. From Cloncurry we drove on to Camooweal a lazy 311 km away. As its a couple of days later now I can’t speciffically recall that particular stretch of road, with the exception of Mt Isa. The mine dwarfed the city and I discovered that a tour of the operation has been voted as one of the top 100 things to do on some Australian tourism website. Still no time for us to linger, nor too much inclination, there will be more mines to see. Continue reading “I love tail winds!” →