verbose on a friday

Just recovered.

In case you were wondering we're in Engawala, which is really quite far from anywhere. Unless you count nowhere, because we are smack bang in the middle of that.

Due to popular demand here is a piccie from our trip to Antarctica. (only one at this stage - still having a few technical issues.)

We took a boat from Ushaia, at the southern tip of Argentina (I say boat, it was a cruise ship with 500 passengers and 300 crew. It was pretty flash). And, to digress a little, did you know that the name 'Argentina' comes from the Latin word for silver, argent, because that is what the Spanish and everyone else wanted out of the hills. How about that. So the boat cruised across the Drake passage and towards the Antarctic peninsula, took about 2 days, totally sunny the whole time, then we chugged in and around and through the islands, going ashore each day on zodiacs to check out the penguins. Neat fun. And chilly. Saw a few whales swimming about, and a few seals, a few albatross, that sort of thing. Back on board the Marco Polo (as our ship was called) we mostly drank. And wandered about trying to work out what floor we were on and where the hell is our cabin?

So yeah, really good fun. Recommended. Just save your pennies for a bit first.

Then we trotted around Buenos Aires and up to the Andes and up to the northern parts of Argentina and around and about.

The meat, as Berin can attest to, is unbelievably good.

And now we are here. Its been 3 weeks since we have been into Alice Springs for supplies so we're out of most things. We'll go in tomorrow and load up. Its pretty funny at the supermarket cos heaps of people come in from far away to do their fortnightly, monthly, 6 weekly shopping so there are some chockers trolleys. We're pretty close to Alice as far as communities go out here. Going to Alice also means we get to drink beer. Woohoo!!! (not allowed to here - nearly all Aboriginal communities are dry. )

That'll do for now.

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