Darwin to Darwin

Wednesday

Hooray, Amy was having the baby today, so we were really glad we were only going from one caravan park to another about 6 km closer to the city and had no problem with phone coverage waiting for the big event. Not long after we had settled into van park number 2, the phone call that we were waiting for came…….it’s a boy. Thomas Michael Harney all 8 pounds 11 ounces of him. Mum and bub doing well. With all that hard work over, just had to go to the shops and buy some baby boy clothes to send home. Hope it gets there before we do on Monday!

Then the serious part of the day, off to the airport to pick up the hire car and drop our car at the mechanic. We had ordered a Corolla size care but they were short of smallish cars so upgraded us to a Kia Carnivale – an 8 seater like a tarago! Who cares so long as it gets us to Kakadu and back.

Hopefully our gearbox will be out of the car and on it’s way to be rebuilt tomorrow or Friday. Fingers crossed everyone please that it will all go without any hitches.

Back to the caravan park for a swim but this pool is quite small and gets very crowded. This park is also really big but has a totally different feel to the other one. More relaxed and more shade trees here, not as upmarket and lots of backpackers. They had cane toad races tonight and I’m sure it was the same fellow that was at Arlie Beach when we were there in 1997. Just as I was about to get dinner, I turned the air conditioner on and all the power went off in the park. I’m sure it was just a coincidence but we had no power for about an hour or so…so no aircon and it’s hot,hot hot.

I’ll be glad to get to Canberra next week for a few days so I can feel cool again.