Our second year visiting Tumbling Waters this time with our friends Glenn and Sue.
We were lucky enough to have a few pitches to choose from and we were soon set up alongside each other. We recognised a number of faces of people who were here last year, couples from South Australia and NSW.
The site we chose proved to be a good one mainly due to our new neighbours, Peter and Adriana and Nugget (little wire haired fox terrier type pooch) who soon became friends for life!!
Other friends, Penny and Bob (Perth) arrived the next day, it was good to see them. Penny organised a wonderful trip, a tour on the Adelaide River, Crocodile spotting, this trip was for 8 of us. What a great experience up close and personal with massive crocs and a visit to Goat Island.
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| Our camp for lunch |
We were joined within a few days by Liam and Liezl, Sue's nephew and his girlfriend. They had been with us in Katherine and had left us to go and do Kakadu, but Liam had some news that, unfortunately, they had to buy a whole new set of tyres for the campervan at a cost of $1500 and Liezl had to have a root canal at the dentist another cost of $1200 all within the space of 3 days poor kids!!
Our nearest supermarket is a local IGA but is very expensive so a drive of 30kms to Palmerston for supplies of food and alcohol is taken in turns between Glenn and Sue and us. The Northern Territory has specific rules on the limit of alcohol that a person is allowed to buy, also the opening times of the shop!!
Lots of time was spent in the park's swimming pool cooling off and chatting to friends.
We took the young ones, Liam and Liezl out fishing, we tried to find a good spot on the river. Liam had been given directions by one of our neighbours as where we would catch fish!! (it didn't happen) but we had a great few hours on a very big jetty, fishing, in the Elizabeth River!
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| First fish out!! |
A drive of 60 plus kms took out to a beach called Wagaiti Beach, with Glenn and Sue, this area is directly opposite the city of Darwin where a ferry takes passengers directly to the CBD 6 kms away. Its a very remote area and we all wondered where the passengers lived.
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| View of Darwin |
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| Wagaiti |
On the way home we did a 5kms trip off roading to find a WWII plane wreck of a B24 liberator called "Milady" what a sight this was and all so sad!
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| List of the souls lost in the crash |
Happy hour was usually at our caravan and evening meals often shared and eaten with Glenn and Sue, Liam and Liezl. We were joined by Sue's brother Morrie and wife Chris, Morrie is Liam's Grandad. I forgot to mention that Liam is a very good golfer, so, Liam and Grandad managed to have a few games of golf.
Two NRL games were watched outside one under Glenn's canopy and the other under Morrie's canopy.
Unfortunately, it was soon time to say goodbye to Morrie and Chris and Liam and Liezl we will miss them, but have promised to keep in touch and follow the young 'un's travels. On a shopping visit to Palmerston we visited a flight centre as we had been dealing with issues from the UK and we feel we need to go back to Holton le Clay and see our house!!! The following night our flights were booked and we would be flying from Darwin to Heathrow via Kuala Lumpur on Monday 4 July!! eeeekkk!!!
A few days later, we had more goodbyes when Sue and Glenn left us for their journey back to Brisbane.. the next time we will see them will be when we meet up before our ferry crossing to Tasmania in October.
The following week was to be a very big tidying away, ready for storing the caravan...All very exciting but stressful at the same time. We will be sad to leave this hot weather.
I have mentioned a couple earlier on, Peter and Adriana, these two are really the most friendly, caring and amazing couple, who, we will always be indebted to. The helped us out in our hour of need!!
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