Darwin cont.

Friday 18 May
Decided we could go ahead and book the hire car for next week when the car goes in for it’s big op so went to the airport and did the deed. Avis were the cheapest so we went with them. All hire cars here only have 500 km so that should get us to Kakadu and back. We also decided to cover all options just in case we needed it, and if the car isn’t ready when we get back from home, we found out we could hire a Prado with a tow bar from Thrifty so could perhaps still take the van to Kununurra.

We wandered around looking at the coast around the different suburbs, beaches with huge expanses of sand because of the variations in the tide levels, and covered with lots of pieces of different varieties of dead coral. The water was flat but still looked very inviting but unfortunately it’s all a no go. What with crocs and stingers the beaches and the azure blue water is totally deserted

Even on holidays the bills still roll in, so this afternoon was set aside for paying the gas, water and electricity, booking tours for the next few days and booking accommodation in Kakadu seeing  the van will be left behind here in Darwin.  That done, we headed for the pool for the rest of the afternoon and got in the holiday mode swimming, relaxing and reading.