The next tour I had none of the people from my last tour. I did however have the same tour guide, Erica who was a wicked laugh and 22, so younger than most of us! On this tour I met a guy called Tony from Leicester who was totally crazy and pretty quick witted.

On this three day tour we covered 1500km from Alice to Darwin at the top, thats nearly 1000 miles, so as you can imagine we spent a lot of time in the bus - time for many games. We visited several water holes, telegraph stations (they used to link oz to the mother land way back when) and a few pubs. Also the devils marbles which are 'precariously balanced granite boulders sacred to the traditional owners' - or so the brochure says - (traditional land owners = Aboriginies, more of which later)

The first night our camp site was situated next to a 'pub' on a cattle ranch. Now this pub constituted a small wooden shack (you could sit outside or no where) and one fridge which had beer in! Not quite a wetherspoons but it did the job! The camp site did however have its own resident Emu, Eddie - who if you were lucky decided to chase you - although I tried to get a video of it chasing somone Eddie didnt always play ball! This night was probably the most eventful and certainly the funniest...Me, Tony and Jan an Italian guy were sitting having a few drinks before dinner when this guy rocks up (about 40 odd, a moulet to die for, Phil you would have loved his style, the BIGGEST glasses I reckon you could fit on a fat face and to top it off...he was a ginger-not that theres anything wrong with that Col!) He got out of his van, put about 8 VB (beer) cans in the bin, bought another one and then we started chatting to him - he informed us it was pretty easy to drink drive (he thought he was a bit of a lege) as long as you knew where the police stations were you could stop just before! top lad!!hmm. He then went on to say he was gonna sack his mum as his secretary before me and him had a discussion on the finer arts of Michael Schumacher - namely me saying he was a cheating scumbag, albeit 'rather' good!

The best bit of the convo tho started when we mentioned we had been to Uluru.....as soon as we said that he blurted out AYERS ROCK, we were like yeh ok...and he then went on a rant about the Aboriginies (cheers Bella for pointing out my incorrrect spelling of said people! I think I still do it though..how's it spelt again?!) - basically he was an out and out rascist, to the point where he said they should be culled, were an extinct race, were a conquered race and that they had not in fact been here for over 40,000 years and they just used to holiday here (top version of history!).....
We however pointed out that to be extinct there would have to be none of them left...we also pointed out the reason why indeed his sorry arse was there - ie. he had infact descended from convicts, and if he really thought the land was his and they should all b***** off, maybe we should come back and claim it for ourselves. The fact that science has shown their drawings to have existed for thousands of years he simply didnt understand.
The best line came when he said 'Bloody Aboes, they couldnt even invent the wheel could they' - to which Tony replied - 'true true, but they have bloody wicked tans dont they'! (for those not in the know aboriginies are black people) We shortly left for dinner, having fought a worthy battle!

The next day we visited Daly Waters, the oldest pub in the Northern Territory and first international airport in Australia! Kirbs if you get to go here, ive left a pic of my good self by the bar - next to your name (someone else scribbled it before me!) This pub is basically decorated by people things, drivers licences, photos,money, underwear!

The last day we went canoeing, it took us 1hr 20 on the way there....cos....well, we were crap! Tied the canoe up and went for a walk - some nice high and pretty steep rocks were climbed in flip flops = not the best idea ever, pics will show how stupid an idea this was! When we got back Tony decided it would be a good idea to try and get the water out of the canoe...so he flipped the thing over - now bear in mind these things are curved on the inside, so when he flipped it back - yup it picked up about half the lake = half the bloody canoe was full, we did our best to empty it all but ended up making our way back sitting in water, it only took 45 mins to get back tho, get in!

This night we arrived in Darwin and went straight out on the beers, met some people from my last tour and had a few too many to drink - I also managed to spill yaga bombs all over my white t-shirt, still hasnt come out, damn!