Saturday, April 19, 2008

school hols






Everybody loves school holidays, and no-one more so than Jo and I.
So last week we hopped in our car and drove up to Darwin and back. Its about a 3500km round trip. Took us 7 days and heeeeeeeeeaps of petrol.

We saw lots of stuff, like

cockatoos...

frogs... heaps of frogs, and lizards too. This one was out at night, thats why its dark. Hope you can see him.

There were crocodiles, some big...

some not so big... And I tell you what, when there is a sign saying 'crocodiles may inhabit these waters', it takes the excitment (read fear) of swimming in deep, unknown lakes to a whole new level...

we saw goats...

cows (I think)...

a brontosaurus and, look away now if you're squeamish,... seriously


a dead horse on fire. How about that? Odd, especially at 8am on a Saturday morning miles from anywhere. It had been dead on the side of the road for at least 4 weeks so we can't work out if it suddenly decided to spontaneously combust or someone thought it would be fun to burn it. Odd.

We also saw millions of termite mounds/structures/castles/edifices/monuments/buildings everywhere... we saw cooler ones but mostly from the car and at 130km/hr you havent got long to take a quick snap.



this one is bigger than most... the termite mound i mean...

as a tragic aside, this is one of the last photos featuring my trusty brown jandals (thongs if you're fair dinkum). They finally died in the Causarina shopping mall in Darwin. The strap busted off the sole. Luckily i was virtually outside that beacon of quality and style, k-mart so i popped in and spent $7 on a new pair. Needless to say the next day in Katherine I forked out $20 for another pair as the k-mart jobs had already worn down and were basically crap. IN ONE DAY. So i now sport a dull green pair of havianas. They really are quite good. Excellent even. Recommended.

Anyhoo, the highlight of the trip was water. There are some stunning swimming holes, waterfalls, rivers etc. Heres a sample.






here's a picture of a 'willy-willy'. Saw lots of those too but this one was cool cos it sort of grew on the road in front of us.
the best thing on the road between here and up there is the Devils Marbles. Heaps of huge rocks scattered and piled up. We camped there the last night before we go home.



and finally , a beautiful photo of Jo sitting at Devils Marbles.

lovely.
And that was our holiday.

2 comments:

Damien said...

love those pics. I felt like I had a holiday just looking at them. I'm inspired to head north. In fact, I might just go and book a holiday tomorrow. Thanks for that - I needed to look outside of my world for a bit. Plus I was a little sad - just been watching a doco with Jane about China's one-child policy. I'm lost for words...and you know me...that's rare.
Sounds like you guys are having an awesome time. Shame about no beer. No real news here apart from the fact that my son is the cutest kid in Footscrazy (not hard when I check out the competition at Sims each evening), the Doggies are winning and I saw some of the most amazing music over the Easter break (tell you about it another time).
lots of love
Damien

Jane Reeve said...

Sounds like a fabulous holiday! That is definitely the best dead burning horse photo I have seen in ages. Your bacon looks amazing- very jealous. So no beer- really, like none?
We're going on a two week trip around the south island in my parents kick arse campervan soon- should be great fun. Otherwise things are fairly much same old. Hope things are great with you, xxxxjane and morg