Viviendo la vida loca: kesäkuuta 2007

Douglas Daly

Hey just a quickie to let u know that we will be working in a place called Douglas Daly picking watermelons again. It is in the middle of nowhere and my mobilephone doesn't work there.. I'm not sure about internet options either so don't worry if I disappear for a while. We will probably be in Darwin after two weeks again at least to buy food and see some people. I'm not sure of how long we will be working here but probably try to stay long enough to save some money to be able to travel the west coast.

The midwinter we spent in a national park called Litchfield. There are a lot of waterfalls and we were swimming in three of them. One has a warning sign that there might be crocodiles so you swim on your own risk. It was a beautiful place and if we have the possibility I'd like to go back there.

Take care.

Here we are

Finally in Darwin.
Monday: We started by heading up north to Cape Tribulation. In Cape Tribualation the rainforest and the barrier reef meets.

Tuesday: We had a long, long drive to Richmond where we spent the night. We would have continued even further but we had to wait until 6am when the gas station opened. We also took a shortcut which ended up in a terrible road full of cangaroos.

Wednesday: Kept on driving through the freezing cold inland. Annoyed buy the cangaroos that just like to sit in the middle of the road waiting for cars.

Thursday: Drove from Tennant Creek to Katherine. We stopped on the way at a hot spring in Mataranka.

Friday: Arrived in Darwin in the afternoon. This time we stopped at a crocodile farm and had a close look at some huge crocodiles. The biggest ones were 5 metres and they are fat.

This is exactly how far away from home I was on Monday (Port Douglas)

Cape Tribulation

The crew

Cow bay

The never ending road (approx. 250km in 5,5hours)

The view at 6am when camping in Richmond. This was after a freezing night

Outback Australia

Hot Spring in Mataranka

Crocodile babies in a farm near Darwin

And the big saltwater crocodile

DARWIN here we come

We have been travelling a lot around the east coast lately looking for work and have now decided to leave Queensland and make the long journey to the Northern Territory. After our birthday we were one week in Tully were we had bad luck with the bananas. Tully is a place where there should be work around the year. The problem was that there had been a cyclone a year ago and the banana industry hasn't fully recovered yet so we had to be on vacation all the time. How hard can life be ;)

After Tully we went back south to Ayr where everybody said that there would be a lot of work. The only problem was that there were even more workers. The place where we stayed promised to organise us work but after a couple of days we didn't have anything else than their promises of work. Already bored of lying at the swimming pool all day we just started to call around to local farmers and soon we had more work than we were able to do with eggplants, watermelons and honeydew.

After a week of work in Ayr we came north to say farewell to my travelmate Piritta (also known as Pirot or Steve). We had a party last friday when Piritta came from her diving trip to the reef. Aino and Petteri from Finland were there as well as Roisin from England. We had a lot of fun playing drinking games, eating pizza and later on going out dancing and drinking champaign in the vip-area of the bar. The next day we were just sleeping and also did what we came here for - which was the farewell.

Today we decided that we are going to Darwin. Aino and Petteri are joining us on this long trip. It is approximately 4000kms' from Cairns so it will take a while. We are planning to work there as well in the watermelonindustry (our favorite).

I will write more when we get to our next destination. To all of you up in the north enjoy the summer while we are trying to escape from the winter here. Cheers :)