Darwin

After Shady Camp it was off to the big smoke of Darwin. We had to pick up Ange (the partner of Mats cousins, mate Baz) from the airport and Mat & I were going to stay with some of my mates that I went to Uni with. We planned to stay for 2 nights. We dropped the trailer off at Lou & Johnos place, but they were both at work, so we went to the Parap Tavern for some lunch & then did a few jobs around town in the afternoon. 

We headed out to Lou & Johnos for the night & had a great night catching up. It was strange not sleeping in the camper trailer & is the first time we haven't slept in their since the 26th of March, wow. 

The next day we caught up with the family again & checked out the Darwin Museum & Darwin Military Museum in the morning & then had a lovely lunch on the Darwin Harbour at the Sailing Club. 

More getting organised in the afternoon & then a last beer with the family. They planned to head to Roper Bar the next day, which was to far out of the way for us, so we decided we would go to Dundee Beach while we were up here & then start making our way back to WA. It was sad to say goodbye, but we had a great time with the family for those couple of weeks. It was great to catch up & have familiar faces around us for that time. So thanks guys, we hope you have a great rest of your holiday!

After we left the family we headed back to Lou & Johnos for another night of catching up. Thanks guys for letting us have a bed for a couple of nights & for using your washing machine (you don't know how nice it was to have a decent washing machine!!!) it was great catching up with you guys & it's wonderful to know friendships can last the distance of time & kilometres. 

We left Darwin early Saturday morning & headed out to Dundee Beach about 130km away. More on that in our next post.