What a sad day, we were all a little down this morning, if we could have we would have stayed here longer, Jock and I have talked about coming here for the winter, although it is hot there is always a cool breeze. We dragged our heels a bit as we packed up, Trevor had to sort out some batteries before we left so we had plenty of time. Michelle brought us all over a coffee from the Lodge and we got in our cars and drove off.
Back on the dirt tracks, red bull dust and corrugation. I suppose being back on these roads helped lift our spirits as we had missed moving and having big fires. We saw lots of wild donkeys and horses along the Central Arnhem Road. We got a fright when we hit a deep bull dust covered hole!! The caravan bumped behind us and then we stopped……. What the hell had just happened? I jumped out to look….. OMG the caravan had come unhooked and the tow bar was laying in the dirt. I called Michelle and Trevor on the radio and they came back to us, Michelle went to the last corner to warn other drivers and Trevor and Jock got about hooking it back up. As Jock went to grab his high lift jack a police van pulled up at the side of us going the other way, there were two policemen one with his arm hanging out the window, he just said “Oops”. They asked if we needed help but the boys had it all in hand. Thank god Jock bought that high lift jack, it did the job with ease and we were soon back on the road but every time we hit a bump we would cringe it had given us such a fright.
We were soon back on our way, we came across one area that was on fire, probably the locals burning off. We saw water buffalo, lots of magnetic ant hills and some Eagles. We enjoyed our nights with a good fire and stayed in the same spots on the way back as we did on our way to Nhulumbuy all very peaceful.
(big sigh)back to Katherine for a night or two before heading down the centre of Australia stopping at a few places on the way to Birdsville. Birdsville being our last point of interest before heading home, it is all getting far too close, maybe we should just stay on the road.
Douglas's Downunder 