Darwin 'Alone' Just tagging along: Darwin back to Katherine

It's been nearly a couple of weeks since I last posted and we have been many places & had many adventures and have ended up back in Katherine at a bush camp out of town. Due to our bush camping internet has been abysmal, so a lot to catch up on when I can finally upload this post.

It will not be chronologically correct as I haven't bothered to sort the pics. Sorry..

Sitting outside at a bush camp at 8pm having watched the last light of the sun fade from the orange outback sky, in this very ancient land I have a somewhat pensive feeling. The realization of the fragility and temporary nature of our lives. We worry about so many little things that mean absolutely nothing when we should appreciate every second of this gift of life, which is 10 fold better when shared with another soul. I strongly believe we are meant to share this experience. I now know how grey the world can be when there is no soul mate to share it with. I am truly grateful to the friends who have allowed me to travel with them & keep me company. I am fairly sure they are sick of me hanging around like a bad smell, yet they never say anything and always treat me like family.

We went to a Zebra rock mine where the stone was 1.2 billion years old, a time the earth still didn’t even have oxygen present, we drive around the Northern Territory which used to be an ancient sea bed many millions of years ago, the same area at another time was under a kilometre of ice during one of many ice ages and knowing full well that these cycles ARE going to repeat, we foolishly believe we can keep things as they are forever. Our lives are so short and no more than a leaf in the wind. We are so inconsequential in the great scheme of things and in another 100 million years a completely different civilization will be digging up the fossils of ourselves, who have vanished without a trace as the many animals & humans before us and they will think that they will be around forever and so the cycle repeats again & again. Yet when you lose the half of you that brings colour to your life you feel that the universe is much poorer than before and it’s hard to believe that everyone else does not feel the same.

Final Darwin sunset from dinner at the sailing club.

Me at Humpty Doo

We met up with Carmel & Glen at Humpty Doo.

On leaving Darwin we drove 120klms around to the other side of the peninsula, to look back to Darwin only 8klms across the water. Boats coming & going from Darwin harbour.

A big fish was chasing little fish below us on the jetty.

We bush camped near this wreck of a wartime B24 bomber which crashed here killing the whole crew.

This is the same plane & crew before the crash.

Our camp near the B24

The usual stupidity of the volunteer fire brigade, lit this grass fire then came into a known camping area to see if anyone was there and there were about seven vans and motor homes trapped by the fire. Checking before lighting did not occur to them, everyone got out but we had to actually brush past the flames.