Category Archives: Nothern Territory

Mickets and a Metre!

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We were supposed to go to Shady this weekend but because of the generational wet season we couldn’t – it was flooded out and the road was dead.

So we went to Micketts and didn’t expect much of the neaps. Mark got a 60cm but we were quite surprised at Tom pulling in a fish at exactly 100cm!

The fish did a great job of wrapping itself around a snag, and I genuinely thought there was little chance that Tom would be able to land it, he did a great job even if it required dropping his rod into the water. He was too big for the net so we did a combined “grippers on the mouth and net on the tail” maneuver.

I tried all day and got nothing but heatstroke.

Litchfield / Tumbling Waters

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We got into tumbling waters for a two night camping trip. The cold dry was not around, it was quite warm which made swimming nice but going to bed at 8pm difficult. The portable fans went a long way.

The kids liked it and the caravan park was nice. It was a bit noisy both nights until around 11.30pm. The food was decent – Eddie got his bowl of chips. One of the highlights was Eddie coming back from kinder to find the car parked and planting himself in the carseat for “Eddie camping sleep in tents” he was so excited.

We went to Buley Rockholes and another of our favourite picnic spots.

Kakadu Camping Trip

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The first camping trip we have been on up here since the kids were born and it went off very well. Eddie loved the tents (and we knew Maggie would). We stayed at Cooinda and there was a highlight of Eddie playing on the jumping pillow with all the other camp kids.

Saturday we went to Ubirr and Nourlangie. We spend the afternoon in the swimming pool.

Sunday we found Ikomarywa water hole. We went to pine creek but unfortunately the old trains were closed due to lack of volunteers to run it.

Overall a very successful trip.