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  • Wings and winds

    When we step out on to the balcony of our apartment early in the morning it feels like the middle of a hot summer’s day. It is like an oven inside and we know we will need to seek airconditioned sights to visit today. Near the end of the Stokes Hill Wharf is the Royal…

  • Kakadu Part 2

    After a hot buffet breakfast we check out of the Kakadu Crocodile Hotel and drive back down towards the Cooinda Lodge. We have a booking for the Yellow Water Cruise at 11.30 AM. There are no shuttles down to the jetty, so we walk around the caravan park, keeping to the shade and away from…

  • Kakadu Part 1

    It came to me that today was the first day since the pandemic started that I have visited another country. I needed no passport, crossed no seas, yet here I am in another land with its own culture and language. In fact I have crossed more than one land today. We head south along the…

  • Bringing out the big guns

    On 19 February 1942 Australia suffered its first foreign attack since the British invaded as Japanese aircraft bombed Darwin. Around 250 lives were lost in this, the first of 90 or so attacks on military installations in the Northern Territory during World War Two. Darwin was a supply base for Australian and Allied forces resisting…

  • Litchfield National Park

    Enough laksa hunting, time to get out and see some more of the Northern Territory! After taking breakfast at the hotel, we set out south for Litchfield National Park.  The quality of the road is very good but once outside of the greater Darwin area the divided lanes of the A1 highway merge. Yet the…

  • Like some laksa

    For a proper South East Asian food experience you need hawker stalls. Sadly the famous Mindil Beach Night Markets are closed during the wet season, but on Saturdays there are the Parap Markets. We skip the hotel breakfast and head straight there to start our day. First impressions are great, with tents and vans selling…

  • The Beagle has landed

    Almost a year and three quarters since I last touched the skies. It was probably the longest period between flights since I began flying again in 1991. After the pandemic struck and we were forced to stay home there were many times when I missed flying. The escape, the isolation, the distant horizons. I realised…

  • A long time since

    For the first time in one and three quarter years we are back at the airport and about to fly. It’s good to be back, but I do feel anxious.

  • Shoalhaven and the Illawarra

    After four days at work I decided I’d had enough and joined most of the team in an extended Australia/Invasion Day long weekend. Alex was too restless to stay at home, so we went on a drive down south to the village of Berry. It was already bustling when we arrived, but not so much…

  • Home tests

    I woke up in the middle of the night feeling sick, then slept in until nine. I still felt bad. Uh oh. I ruled myself out of doing anything today except going home. Straight home. Fortunately, Alex agreed with me, so after a breakfast in the apartment we set off back to Sydney.  I closed…