Sun, 17th to Fri, 22nd July - Darwin

I went down like a ton of bricks with a really bad cold, so I spent the next four days in bed.  Sightseeing had to be postponed until our return from Tuross.  Rick went to the car races at Hidden Valley on the Sunday but was disappointed in the quality of the meeting.  He spent his days washing the car and swimming in the pool and generally catching up on maintenance while I was so sick.

Earlier we had organised with Kellie to pick us up in Canberra when we arrived so we could surprise everyone else.  But, on the Tuesday we heard that John needed Kellie to go with him to Hay on the day of our arrival, so poor Kel had to let the cat out of the bag about us coming home.  Never mind, it still worked out OK as John and Kel were able to leave a car in Canberra on their way through to Hay so we could drive ourselves home to Tuross.

Wednesday I was still not well, but was able to get up so we went for a short drive to get out of the van for a while.  While out we had a phone call from our bank to say that someone in America had used our credit card, so we had a bit of mucking around to get that sorted out. Thankfully, the bank was on the ball and got on top of it quickly.

On Thursday Rick also started feeling a bit off colour.  We spent the day getting a few things done in  readiness to fly home, and drove to Fannie Bay to have lunch.  On Friday neither of us were feeling 100% but we managed to pack up and get the van and car ready to go into storage.  We had a cab booked to pick us up at 6am the following (Saturday) morning to take us to the airport.
 

Hidden Valley Raceway

The beach at Fannie Bay