Catching up...
OK so I've let the blog updates slide for a few days and now (because of our action-packed schedule) I have a few destinations to cover in this one update...
Well, here goes: from Darwin we took a bus down to Tennant Creek where we hoped to get a quick shuttle to the Devil's Marbles before heading out to Cairns via Townsville. Unfortunately, when we arrived at our (curiously ramshackle) hostel in Tennant Creek, it turned out that the guy who runs the bus had decided to get it serviced that day so we were stuck for a day in a town (pop. 3500) halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs with all the exciting entertainment opportunities that go along with being in the middle of nowhere.
In a last desperate attempt to reach our desired goal, we decided that rather than sit around town and try to entertain ourselves, it would be worth the cost to rent a car and head off to the Devil's marbles on our own. To help you make up your mind as to whether we made a good decision or not, we took some photos (soon to be displayed in their own facebook photo album).
Anyway, we left Tennant Creek on the Greyhound and 20-something hours later washed up in Townsville a large-ish but unremarkable town in the north-east of Queensland. Upon entering Queensland we realised that we had now reached the 8th and final administrative district (including states and territories) in Australia. Unfortunately, this meant that the rest of Australia lies behind us and we only have three weeks left before we have to leave Oz.
We reached Cairns the next day (spent another night on the Greyhound!) and found ourselves another hostel. We wound up in a 4 person dorm for the first couple of nights where I made no end of friends with my epic Noden snoring (I can't think where I got that from...) luckily we got ourselves a private double room after that.
So all that remains to do now is tell you about our Cairns experience. I'll leave that for another day as I am rapidly running out of time, but needless to say it's all been pretty amazing so far... I'll try to finish catching up soon - and post the pix! Keep your eyes on the right hand column for photo updates.
Well, here goes: from Darwin we took a bus down to Tennant Creek where we hoped to get a quick shuttle to the Devil's Marbles before heading out to Cairns via Townsville. Unfortunately, when we arrived at our (curiously ramshackle) hostel in Tennant Creek, it turned out that the guy who runs the bus had decided to get it serviced that day so we were stuck for a day in a town (pop. 3500) halfway between Darwin and Alice Springs with all the exciting entertainment opportunities that go along with being in the middle of nowhere.
In a last desperate attempt to reach our desired goal, we decided that rather than sit around town and try to entertain ourselves, it would be worth the cost to rent a car and head off to the Devil's marbles on our own. To help you make up your mind as to whether we made a good decision or not, we took some photos (soon to be displayed in their own facebook photo album).
Anyway, we left Tennant Creek on the Greyhound and 20-something hours later washed up in Townsville a large-ish but unremarkable town in the north-east of Queensland. Upon entering Queensland we realised that we had now reached the 8th and final administrative district (including states and territories) in Australia. Unfortunately, this meant that the rest of Australia lies behind us and we only have three weeks left before we have to leave Oz.
We reached Cairns the next day (spent another night on the Greyhound!) and found ourselves another hostel. We wound up in a 4 person dorm for the first couple of nights where I made no end of friends with my epic Noden snoring (I can't think where I got that from...) luckily we got ourselves a private double room after that.
So all that remains to do now is tell you about our Cairns experience. I'll leave that for another day as I am rapidly running out of time, but needless to say it's all been pretty amazing so far... I'll try to finish catching up soon - and post the pix! Keep your eyes on the right hand column for photo updates.
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Snoring, as you now seem to have found out, can be a password to a private room. Great!! Alas, snoring next to someone else is maybe not great for them.
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