Once again, I’ve been really slack at updating this site, but to be honest, there hasn’t been very many post worthy events. However, now that I’m trying to update, we’re having problems downloading photos! So for now words only will have to suffice.
There is once incident which I should have posted about when it happened and David isn’t very happy with me for not posting about it then, and of course now I can’t show a photo, so it back and use your imagination to see David standing on a boat with a big grin on his face, holding a 1.2m long Jewfish. Personally I don’t see what all the fuss is about, I did email photos to the world!. I reckon he only caught it to upstage me! Mind you, he still hasn’t caught a Barra!
Well, we’ve handed in our notice and will be finishing work next Friday, September 26, and leaving Darwin on October 4. We’re going to head to Kunnunnurra in WA for a few weeks and then we’ll head back to Adelaide. David wants to get some work done on the truck so we’ll check it out in Adelaide, and see when it can be done. The plan is to leave our van in Adelaide and go to Melbourne for Christmas and catch up with the family and friends for a few weeks then head back to South Australia and hopefully that will be when the truck can be worked on. Not sure exactly where we’ll head after that – will decide later. I hope we can catch up with as many of you as possible over the Christmas/New Year period.
We sold the yacht recently, so any fishing right now will be land fishing. But we’ve decided a new tinny is definitely on the shopping list for next year, one slightly smaller than the one we just had so we can carry it with us.
We’ve been out and about a fair bit lately, doing some tourist stuff such as museums and markets, as well as visiting some of the beautiful areas a couple of hours outside of Darwin. We’ve also been to the Boat Show, the Darwin Show, the V8’s, and a lot of time has been spent catching up with friends for dinner etc. The weather over the dry season has been beautiful – gorgeous sunny days and (slightly) cooler nights, but it’s now the start of the build up has arrived, although it’s a little bit early. Some locals are predicting a ‘big’ wet this year, apparently it’s been a while since they have had a big one. I thought last year was pretty wet, so not sure what a big one entails 
We’ve had a great 12 months in Darwin, but we’re both looking forward to getting back on the road – while the time has gone quickly, staying somewhere this long wasn’t part of the plan, at least not at this stage of our travels, there’s just way too much to see to stay too long in one place. It also wasn’t part of the plan to work so long without a break – 12 months. We could have stayed in Melbourne and done that! The upside was that we got to meet a lot of the locals and we’ve made some good friends.
Once we get back on the road I should be updating a bit more frequently – and with photos hopefully