Picnic Day, NT

 

 

 

What is Picnic Day you ask? Yeah, well

so did I. So, according to the internet:

 

Picnic Day is a public holiday in the

Northern Territory of Australia

which takes place every year on the

first Monday of August.

It was originally declared a public holiday

to commemorate the freeing of the

 Chinese Coolie indentured labourers

who built the Darwin to Larrimah

 North Australia Railway

 

So, there you have it!

 

Our thought process went more like this:

Picnic Day. Public Holiday. No work.

Must be to celebrate picnics?

Gotta go on one then!

And, so we did.

 

Only, the catch is, that us Holmeses tend to

like to do extreme things, so, our picnic

was to take us on a 900 km round trip

from Katherine to Timber Creek to Top Springs

and back to Katherine again.

 

Which looks something like this:)

A big loop.

 

 

The Stanleys and James came with us

so we had some other crazy people

excited about doing a long trip on a day off.

We left at 7am and arrived home at 10pm.

 

Dave had just recently done a run out there

in the truck and seen some pretty scenery,

so he decided to show us all.

 

There was also some tracks that he hadn't been on

(seeing he couldn't take a road train down them)

but wanted to explore.

 

 

All in all, it was a great day,

but if we ever ask you if you'd like to go on

a picnic with us.....BEWARE!

 

I've put together a short slide show for

you all to enjoy.