Our Last Days in Darwin

Early Morning at Lee Point Beach

Well for those of you that don't know, we were going to spend 3 months in Darwin as Dave was going to fly direct to the mine from here. But less than a week before this much planned trip Dave's Mine went into Care & Maintenance, so he was out of a job!
It was very unexpected & hardly any notice at all. We decided to still bring our van up to Darwin & Catch up with our friends as planned, but obviously not staying for 3 months.

Anyway enough about that, we have really enjoyed being up here & catching up with our friends & visiting all our favourite places.

Friday we went on a Mitchell St Pub Crawl with Jack & Si ( Si was the designated driver ) First stop Was   The Ducks Nuts yes that is the name & we had a lovely lunch there,then onto The Tap, The Wisdom Bar, Monsoons & finishing at the The Deck Bar. Now those of you that know Darwin will know that we only accomplished 1 side of the road, But it was a very hot day & we had more than 1 drink per pub so we were well & truly ready to go home.

Si & Jack

Saturday, we were a bit slow, but we still got up at 7am & went for our morning walk :) & just potted around the van all morning. We went to the Cas Club for lunch & won $20 bucks on the pokies :)

Sunday, we caught up with friends Jenny & Steve. We had run into them at a camping shop here in Darwin, they used to be our neighbours in Kalgoorlie -small world!

Steve & Jenn

We were hoping to catch up with Kathy & Dean Sunday arvo but they were busy so we decided to do some sight seeing:

We went out to Stokes Hill Wharf:

Talk about small world - that was our friend Grant waving in the boat as I was taking the picture!

Then we drove to East Point:

Then to Nightcliff:

The weather got real steamy & windy. the clouds were pretty threatening too:

So we decided to head back to the van.
Of course there was no rain!

Sunday night we had a few drinks with Jack & Si, just a few :)


Monday we caught up with some very dear friends that used to live behind us at Lee Point Many years ago.

Les & Suzie

Les & Suzie have been living on their Yacht & were currently moored off Stokes Hills Wharf so we met them on the wharf & had a lovely lunch of locally caught Barra & salad  a great catch up chat.
So sad we only got to see them for a short time.

Dave had organised 3 days work so we we were leaving Darwin on Tuesday.

We had our last dinner Back at the wharf with Jack & Si, it was the last day of their break as well.

Another lovely meal & good chat:

Jack, Si ,Me & Dave

So we packed up & Left Darwin first thing Tuesday Morning & Headed to Hayes Creek, which is really just a roadhouse & Big 4 Caravan Park.
But that will be in the next update!

So cheers & Happy Travels,
Shell