Holmes/Drews Adventure

Recently, we drove up to Darwin to pick up

Cam and Lauren from the airport after there

trip to Timor. Over recent weeks, we've

had to do quite a few trips to Darwin,

which is unusual for us, so it was time for a detour.

It's not that the road is boring or anything,

but, sometimes something different is in order.

Well, we decided to do a loop road that

goes past the old Grove Hill Historic Hotel.

Problem. Wet season. Hmmm.

Well, we had just picked up Emilee's new ute

and what better way for Emilee to get her first drive

in it, than taking it on a dirt road full of washouts,

potholes, mud, flooded

causeways and creek crossings.

Emilee puts the L plates on and she's off!

Cam followed behind in our cruiser

and splashed through

all the puddles as per usual.

(seriously, is there any other way???)

Well, we were going along fine, but as the road

got worse, Dave took over the driving and we

came to a bigger, much deeper crossing.

Well, the fellas said Lauren and Chloe

and I could wade across to check

the depth and conditions.

Ok, so well, maybe we volunteered

because we love getting wet.

Well, once it got to our thighs, we began

to get the heebie jeebies about whether or not

there was any crocs in this fast flowing creek

and we could only see the tip of the guide post,

and it wasn't getting any shallower or shorter,

so, we turned around and

decided to find another way.

Dave wisely didn't feel like having to drain all

the oils etc out of both vehicles for the next week

and our old cruiser needs some TLC at the moment.

So, we turned around and tried

to figure out the best

way back without going over the same tracks again.

We took one road that was very interesting,

but petered out into little more than a goat track

and we realised that wasn't the right one.

Here's the girls trying to get a bar of reception to

look at Google maps to find a better road.

We were unsuccessful with that by the way.

All in all, we had a good time and got home

late, tired, hungry but happy that we took the

long way home and explored new ground.

Dave has now found an interesting old

site to go explore some more some time.

Sometimes life calls for the long way home!

And in other random news,

we had a nice downpour the other night

so I had to grab the camera and sit out on

the verandah to see what I could see.

Neighbourhood vista through rain

And some light painting with lasers!

And of course bats bats and more bats

The girls crack the whip to scare them out of the

trees behind our house and they go crazy,

fly away, then someone up the road scares them

all back again. It's a game we like to play. LOL.

"The world is a book,

and those who don't travel,

read only one page"