During our stay in Darwin, we stay at Keith and Wendy's property at Howard Springs. On arrival to their home, they have three other couples staying with them at this time. Happy hour is enjoyed every night under the outside patio, overlooking the pool, watching the sun setting. Some communal dinners are enjoyed with us all contributing towards the meals, otherwise we do our own meals back at camp. The weather is stunning, 32 degrees each day with cool balmy nig...

The following morning we were on the road early and arrived into Katherine by 9.15am. Here we did all our DABUS jobs - water, fuel, dump point and food for us and waxing for one. We had been in contact with Neil and Trina, (Lorelle's cousin and his wife) who were travelling to Darwin and caught up with them for morning tea. We had caught up with them last year in our travels at Carnavon WA, its funny that life seems too busy at home to catch up, but we seem to be...

In our haste to publish the last blog, we forgot to mention that this was our forth time at Camooweal. There would have been no more than thirty caravans, motorhomes etc and this is the quietist we have ever seen it. We feel like we have missed the migration north. But it was nice and peaceful. Jimmy Barnes joined us on the next leg of our journey in DABUS. He kept us entertained with all his tales and made us laugh. It was fabulous to be in the company of a gre...