So we made it to Darwin. Have been here a little while now. So far, quite impressed. A lovely, modern bustling town which comes as a bit of a shock to the system after travelling up the dry, desolate middle of Australia. We’ve ummed and ahhhhed about how long we should hang out here and have finally decided to hang out for the wet. That is, leave next April/May. Main reason being that they’ve now closed the Bungles and the Gibb River Rd, and since we won’t be up this way again anytime too soon, we have to wait until they reopen again after the wet. At least Darwin is a nice place to hang out in. Surprisingly so really.
Our life since arriving here has been quite low key. Mainly hiding out in public libraries finishing off Alex’s school work for the year. He’s going really well with his schoolwork. I’m feeling quite proud of what we have achieved this year. Learning to read, write, add and subtract. Quite an achievement given how little time we’ve spent on it.
Apart from that, we’ve explored some of this town. We’ve had dinner at the Wharf where the boys have loved feeding the huge barra under the jetty. We’ve done what the locals do on a Saturday night and experienced the Mud Racing where the boys got covered head to toe in mud! Also spent a couple of days in the wonderful NT museum checking out their very insightful Cyclone Tracy exhibit as well as “Sweetheart”… a huge croc caught and accidently drowned in a local river.
We’ve had a couple of visits from family and friends while we’ve been here. Mum came up from Melbourne for a couple of weeks in October. Jen and Emily came for a chill out week in December and got to experience some really wildly wet & stormy weather when we got the tropical low pressure system that eventually built up to Cyclone Laurence.
The most surprising thing though, is how many families like us there are in the Caravan Park. Many of whom are staying put here for the wet. Surprising really. It’s great for the boys because they’ve got lots of new friends to play with here.
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