Oh Yeah!!!! 4 Day weekend at the end of October, time to get out of Manila. Destination, Caramoan. We'd been planning this trip for about a month now. Brenden came across it whilst looking at a Wakeboarding park near Naga. It looked pretty good from the photos and it looked like it was off the tourist trail. Just what we needed. Jodi did all the organising, she found a place to stay for Saturday and Sunday nights and then Monday night at the wakeboarding pl...

For the last week Brenden had been very unwell with a flu. He had most of the week off work and spent the whole time laying around the apartment as he didn't have energy to do anything else. During the week we were invited by another Australian couple, Neil and Jill, to join them on a weekend trip to a resort not far from Manila and we took the opportunity hoping that Brenden would be feeling well enough by the weekend. Neil works with Brenden at GHD and Jill ver...

Welcome to our new apartment in Manila. It's probably better then the place we were living in in Maryborough. It's a 3 bedroom / 3 bathroom aparment if you count the maid's dungeon. There's a small balcony off the living area and then another 2 even smaller balconies off the main and second bedrooms. We're on the 11th floor so we can see a bit of the city. The real view is from the roof. You can get up on the helipad and look around for ages. The city just...

So we get up and leave camp around 7.30am and start the trek back to Darwin. Head south to Pine Camp and then head north on the Stuart Highway. A few k's south of Kakadu we saw a few buffalo that were really close to the road. Honestly that was about the highlight of the drive. So we get into Darwin around noon and first thing we do is find a laundromat and do all our washing. While that was happening we cleaned out the van and sorted out our bags. Then we ...

Our last full day in Kakadu After setting off from camp we headed south to Maguk (Barramundi Gorge). The road was herendous but was worth it. This place was beautiful! We went swimming in the plunge pool with a heap of fish and barramundi swimming all around us. Again Jodi took some coaching to get in the water. This time it wasn't the temperature but the fear of crocodiles. Jodi reckons there were bubbles rising up from underneath a log in the water. Aft...