From Alice Springs to Darwin

Hallo,

while you worked hard to keep up the worlds economy (Thank you! :-) ) we have covered about another 1400km driving from the middle of Australia to the uppermost North: Darwin.

What we have seen: flies, saltwater crocodiles, another type of termite mounds (classify the shape for yourself this time :-)...see the picture), Kakadu Nationalpark, flies, dead and living kangaroos, wallabies (= kangaroo ??) , birds, flies, ants (they were either cleaning our dishes before we finished the meal or Mirko was licking their green tail end, which tastes (according to mouth-to-mouth-information (haha) like lemon ???...I didn't doublecheck it though)), flying foxes, freshwater crocodiles, lions, tigers, monkeys (guess where...:-) ), trees, rock paintings, bird billabongs without birds and aren't they supposed to have water as well...on the other hand...who the hell knows really what a billabong is???; flies, millions of magpie geese, flies, grass, sun, waterfalls without water, rivers without water, creeks without water, floodplains without water, wetlands without water....??????; eagles feasting on road kill, roadkill meat grilled on night markets, beaches, flies, dumb looking other tourists with fly nets :-) like us; a flat tire (on OUR CAR!!!!!!!), gravel roads, flies, fuel stations 'Sorry! out of order, we apologies for any inconveniences!' (AAAAAHH!); campgrounds; sitting on the calculated most middle point of Australia , adventure tour groups; flies.....

Here are the pictures.

But if you wake us up in our sleeps to ask us what we have experienced, the answer would definelty predominantely be: FLIES!!! So don't wonder if we kind of spastically wave everything we can wave with when we come back. One never know where the flies hovers.... so take care!! Maybe she is right behind you and you don't know it by now (aaahhhhhahahahahahah....)

Yesterday we reached Darwin and were glad to be able to sleep in a bed again (a real bed on four feet !) and don't have to walk through snake-, frog-, mosquito- and spider infested grass for a mile to the toilet in pitch dark. And by the way... there is a green frog following me around in the toilets! When he is not quick enough I catch him waiting for me in the basin! So take a good look at your toilets before using them, so that he can't jump you from behind. :-)

Otherwise the nature was good, the gorges good to swim in (and it was recommended too)...although we were told later that there where probably freshwater crocodiles in the pool swimming with us. But we were assured that freshwater crocdiles "only bite you" they "don't eat you"! What a relieve! ;-(

We will be going to the south again next week so we will probably be gone missing agin for about a week before we resurface. So don't worry. (would anybody anyway?? ;-))

We keep you informed ! :-) We send you a lot of sun!!!

Renate & Mirko