before the festival

got no more capital letters on my keyboard as millions of tiny ants have invaded it......that is life in darwin with the dry, dry weather...ants are everywhere even in my bed....
left cairns in june, i think, with lisa a german traveller..we did a bit of sightseeing on the way, camping and entry to the normanton rodeo for only 5 dollars each,  got involved on day of raising funds for the farmers at  karumba  where we met a fisherman who gave us a pack of huge prawns.....

cowboys having fun....

the local team sponsored by a gas company

yummy..........

running with the crocs away from the cracking whips.........

we met a friendly lady drover from queensland...

camping by a billabong

explorer macdonald stuart would 

have preferred a house on wheels?


this old truck is going so fast and its so cool....

kakadu here we come.....

first we explored katherine gorge, hiking , swimming....

a vast rocky country...

we walked the 12km bark walk behind nourlangie.....spectacular and tough....

there we discovered this yelow huge bee, never seen anywhere else.....

at the end of the walk the rangers had set the fire onto the bush behind us........

happy to have an indigenous guide at ubirr

sunset at ubirr 

wetlands; birds, lotus flowers, fish, crocs.....sneaking on us...

more vultures.....

millions of mosies, even the fire could not keep them away....

one of the best festivals in Australia happens to be in darwin, 2 weeks of music, theatre,.....with the large mining and gas companies sponsoring, many concerts were free such as abba

torres straight islanders at the opening

telstra sponsored the indigenous artists award, at the museum, for the occasion we could take photographs

this is modern painting on bark

my favourite 

vietnamese puppet show at the lagoon

indonesian puppet show in the park with a monster eating children in the crowd....

the great star.....gurumul....

the festival closed with an evening of choirs from tiwi islands, the red center and soweto

I have been working for apollo campers, looking after clients, showing vehicles, running around like a chook in the yard dealing with a mountain of problems....long hours, with a maxi pay of 38hrs at 20 dollars....the staff is all backpackers, no ozzies want to work in these conditions, but that s all i found.....will be leaving soon to head towards alice springs and adelaide.........will be missing the lovely sunsets