Blogs from Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 2

After a few wonderful days in Tennant Creek we are now getting ready for Alice Springs, which is our next destination. It is going to be a lot of fun! On that note, I am going to leave you for now and go find all my things that is placed here and there all over the room and press it down my backpack once more and get all that (and ourselves) into the car and hit the road. See you later alligator! //Lovisa... read more

In Tennant creek we found out about Kelly’s Ranch where you get a guided tour on horseback on which you get to hear stories about aboriginal culture and get some bush-tucker stops along the way. It sounded interesting so why not give it a go? If you feel like you need to, like we did, you can sign up for a one hour long group riding lesson before the real ride. You don’t need any earlier experience, which makes this an activity everyone can enjoy. Unless you like Linnéa is allergic, then this might not be your best option. But she still enjoyed it in between the sneezes. It was a lot of fun, and as fascinating as we thought it would be if not more. On the other hand, since none of us is a ... read more

.....all we can say is they better receive the correct trailer part tomorrow morning or we may just about go postal!. Have checked out every attraction in town and surrounds over the last 3 days and are officially ready to move on. We seem to have mastered the management of the annoying biting ants that seem to be infesting everything in sight. The Patrol tyres sit inside 4 squares of Ant killer powder, plus talcum powder....seems to keep the buggers out! And the park people have done their bit to keep them out of our digs so all good.... Have a roast lamb dinner in the oven and are ready to get the trailer back tomorrow, pack up and be ready for departure first thing on Tuesday.....hooray....but they better have the part......I'm just sayin! Next update ... read more

3/10/11 Dear family and friends, After a wonderful 5 and a half months in the amazing WA, we crossed the border into the NT a week ago and this afternoon after driving 500 km's, crossed into QLD! As we have wanted to phone family and friends in WA, QLD and Victoria this week, we have spent all week asking each other, "What's the time in…?" as it is different in WA, NT, QLD and now also in Victoria as last night daylight-saving started there! Last night our phones must have thought we were in SA and the clocks went forward automatically! As we hurried this morning we realised the error and gained a whole hour, only to have to give back half an hour this evening as we crossed the QLD border! The last blog ended ... read more

By Grace. Most of the day was spent in the car-we had a long way to go. On the way, we stopped at Devil's Marbles. The Aboriginals believe that they are the eggs laid by the Rainbow Serpent. We stopped to get petrol at two roadhouses-they weren't very nice, especially the toilets. At Tennant Creek, we stayed at a cabin instead of the van so that we could leave quickly the next morning. That night, we went to a Bush Tucker Man's performance teaching us about bush tucker. He was half Aboriginal and was born in Mt Isa. He grew up on the Georgina River in Cammoweal (QLD), with his mum and lived in a humpy (under gumtree 69!). He never went to school (lucky!). He taught us how to cook fish on a fire, the ... read more