On the road again.... Mataranka, NT

Happy Anniversary, Shirl & Merv!

Speaking of anniversaries, we celebrate our 39th wedding anniversary today, aw shucks, and for a big night out we've booked a table at the van parks restaurant. Not that there's a heap of choice in beautiful downtown Matranka, famous for being near where Elsey Station was, itself made famous in the book We of the never never. There are two springs, Bitter Springs and Rainbow springs, which feature in the book but only as a supply of precious water. Still its nice enough and the warm to hot water helps sooth the road tension away.

Here's a snap a little trinket Judy picked up in Kununrra the other day. You know what they say, if you cant tour the diamond mine, you can at least get some samples to carry about!

Cat with cream.

Something for the kids to fight over one day... That's a champagne (naturally for the Baroness of Bubbles) diamond surrounded by 1/2 a dozen ordinary ones

 But wait, there's more -
Good old Willie Nelson doesn't feature on our iPlod, but he should, and if he did, he'd be playing our favourite song....

On the road again -
Just can't wait to get on the road again.
...
Goin' places that I've never been.
Seein' things that I may never see again

 
well, you get the idea i'm sure.

What that means is that we picked up the car yesterday and did some tootling around Darwin to check it out a bit first, and all things looking OK, we hitched up and hauled out this morning.

Uneventful run down to Katherine where we filled up the tank and had some lunch before the final run down to Mataranka and after 400k I'm pretty happy its a goer.

Judy gets the diamonds, I'm just happy to have the car and be back on the road again.
Cheers all.