Sailing around the World ( presently in Darwin Australia )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Wed 1 Sep 2010 08:21
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MONDAY 30th
AUGUST 2010
Litchfield National
Park.................
All this land as We said before is owned by the
Aboriginal tribes, Lictchfield nat. Pk. is a joint venture between the
Aboriginals
and the Government of of the Northern
Territories.and It is much smaller than Kakadu and much more accessable for one
day tours
from the city of Darwin. so they have approx
300,000 visitors a year, most of these during the dry season. (
april / Oct.)
We had an early breckfast and off again in the
blinking 4X4,,
This time we went to the " Florance Falls," which
were magnificant,
From there we travelled to Wangi Falls, once the
4X4 stopped , we all got into our togs and went swimming in really nice clear
cool fresh water.
The last swim we had was back in " Lizzard Island "
and seems like an eternity ago.
The bouyancy difference between
fresh water and sea water was very
noticable,, Skipper could hardly stay on the surface.
Later we stopped at a roadside cafe for lunch, It
had some buffalow in an adjoining field, so we all scampered off to feed the
beasts
with part of our lunches, The animals were
delighted with the additional vitimans they were recieving from these strange
humans.
We stopped at some war memorial grave for the
fallen soldiers during World War 2,, We did not realise how many bombs were
dropped
by the Japs on the Darwin area. but they certainly
caused a lot of damage to Darwin. including demolishing most of the " Government
House "
that beautifull building we visited recently.
17.30hrs We arrived back to the marina, of
course all those on the 4X4 had to get out and examine this world touring
yacht
from Ireland , After a short period, we said
our goodbye's and off they went , all waving out the windows as they fled into
the sunset.
18.30hrs Neil, Skipper, and Aileen walked the
short distance to the Yacht Club for prize giving ceramony, the prizes for
the leg
from Thursday Island to Darwin were being handed
out tonight.
"Lady Lisa " came first in our class and we came
3rd,,
We were given excellent finger food , courtasy of
the World ARC and in general had a great night.
We had a few visitors back to the boat for a few
night caps before long.
These included Srecko and his
wife from " Ciao " ( Slovinia ) Dave and Sue from " Voyageur " and many
more,
Srecko is leaving the trip and returning home,,
they , just the 2 of them on their boat won the "Pearl Regatta " in Tahiti. and
generally are very
competive on their boat.
We ahd a good night d eventually hit the scratchers
around midnight. ZZZZZZZZZZZZ zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Thats it for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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