Checked out the Darwin show with some pig racing, spear throwing and also a rodeo. Very cool to do something a little different. Took a ride on the dodgem cars which was kind of fun as well as watched motor bikes race horses. We checked out a few of the exhibitions - I found a great kids artistic work of a sheep made from a cauliflower - I just had to photograph it.
Been cruising around town - took a trip out to the Mindil Beach Markets where I watched the sun set and saw some local talent playing all types of musical instruments.
Have been enjoying the scenery (an no I am not talking about the 2 legged variety), swimming - the weather has been great & relaxing. I have been taking Nanna naps - because I can.
My friend Ken learnt how to play the didgeridoo which I have taken photos of - he is a relatively good player for someone who only learnt today! Maybe he has natural talent....NOT!
We stopped in Adelaide River where we took a break and photographed the buffallo out of "Crocodile Dundee". His name is Charlie. Headed on to Edith Falls where we swam and had lunch. I was very excited I got to see a road train - took lots of pics of them - I think they are just amazing. There was a grog stop at Katherine and then we drove to Timber Creek where we set up camp and had dinner by the river which is home to baby crocodiles. No camp fire just torch light - at least there was warm showers!
Day 2 started very early and when we got to the NT/WA border we had to switch our watches back by 1.5hrs and so our day seems to get longer as we go along! Just took a visit to Lake Argyle and had a look at one of the homesteads which used to house a rural farming family. It was amazing the amount of "old stuff" they have in the museum to look at.
Now we are at Kununurra having lunch and a break before a long drive ahead of us into the Bungle Bungles where we will camp for 2 nights and have cold showers....oh how I am looking forward to that!
El Questro Wilderness Reserve was our next stop and here we also had two nights to enjoy the camp ground. It was a one horse town (just about)and it even had a bar. There was so many swimming opportunities for us. Just down from where our camp sit was set up there was even a swimming hole so we had many opportunities to swim when ever we could.
So many walks/hikes on this tour and some of them we have visited include Galvins Gorge, Manning Gorge, Windjana Gorge, Bells Creek GorgeAmalia Gorge & Zebedee Springs.
Another sunset enjoyed by the group down by the waters edge where we went croc spotting - I paddled my feet, just so the croc would come to the surface....and he did....lucky they were only fresh water crocs!
A quick trip to Derby (lucky we didn't stay there long.....nothing exciting happens there) and then onto Broome where I had the opportunity to take a camel ride along Cable Beach at sunset. It was amazing and lots of fun.
Today we are heading to 80 Mile Beach and there is only now 3 of us on the tour - we left 10 people in Broome to finish their holidays and Ken, Dave & I will be heading down to Perth over the next 9 days.
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