Sat, 16th July - Darwin

One of the big sellers at the Mindil Beach Markets on Thursday nights is leather stockmans whips.  We were woken early to the sounds of children all through the park trying to master the art of 'cracking' these noisy things.  We were soon to learn that we would hear this day and night for the next week.

The day before we went for a drive and ended up buying two new doona covers from a Spotlight store for the van.  On opening one of them we found that it contained two pillow cases but they didn't match each other, so we had to return to the store to swap the set.

Rick decided to go to the Speedway at Hidden Valley in the evening so he rang Steve (Steve and Linda were staying in another park a short distance away) and invited him to go too.  I stayed at the van as I was starting to get a sore throat ... I'm not sure if I picked something up at the markets or from the park's swimming pool. There are some interesting signs to be seen when driving around the Northern Territory.

 

Leave your dirty books at home!

Darwin Speedway at the Hidden Valley Race Complex