Sights of Darwin

Drag Races @ Hidden Valley

Last night Tony and I went to the drag races and saw the drag cars. It was very noisy and some kids had earmuffs. My and dads favourite was a silver car (in the photo above) that went so so fast, as soon as it took off it was at the end of the strip, WOW fast as !!

We saw the Aussie Bandit ute it went all the way to the end of the drag track on just it's back wheels, dad said it was about 17 times more powerful than our Ford! A lot of modified street cars and motor bikes were racing too. I went on a giant jumping castle slide, it was such a fun night!

Zomury

Fireworks on NT Day - 1st July 2010

We had a great time on Northern Territory day, dad bought some fireworks and we all went down to East Point and let them off on the beach after we had our pizza. Tony asked us if we wanted to let one off but I didn't want to get hurt. (not that dad would let that happen). Me and Zomury spent most of our time at the play ground playing with the other kids while watching and listening to the fireworks go off. One of them (not ours!) fell over and went into the barbeque and pierced a hole through a sausage .

We went home at 9:45pm and didn't get to bed till late.

I absolutely loved the display.

Meophy

V8 Supercars @ Hidden Valley Raceway

The weekend of 18th - 20th June was a big race meeting in Darwin at the Hidden Valley track. Lots of people were there, and we went 3 days in a row! It was round 8 of the V8 Supercar series with Holdens and Fords competing, we went for Holden. They won!!! There were also V8 Utes, Touring car Masters, Formula Ford and Commodore & HQ Holden races. We went into the pits and got lots of posters and got some signed by the drivers. We liked the pink and purple XA GT351 Ford that Leanne Tander drives.There was a cool kids area with free rides and spray on tattoos, dad let us get one each. After the races finished there was a concert on with Dr Elephant, Gyroscope and Sneaky Sound System, which was most popular and my favourite. I cant wait until we go again! Mum was interviewed on the big screen and was embarrassed by the questions the man asked.

Meophy (& Tony)

Litchfield NationalPark

Today we went to Litchfield and swam in the Buley Rockpools and at Florence Falls. We took a picnic lunch to eat there. We saw lots of black fish at Florence Falls and I fed some of my bread to them, they loved it! Meophy was scared to swim with the fish and I was too a little bit, but Mum took us in and it was great, lots of people were there. We went exploring around the rocks and saw a goanna with its tail missing. We went to see some big termite mounds too! One was nearly 5 metres high! Some clever ants build their mounds from east to west to avoid the sun.

Zomury (& Tony)

Mindil Market / Deckchair Cinema

The Mindil market is cram-packed full of people on every Thursday evening. Most stalls are food, and we've been trying a different type each night but my favourite is the nutella crepes.

There are fire twirlers, reptile shows, buskers and musicians to be entertained by. I love the atmosphere of it and the sunsets are amazing.

The Deckchair Cinema is an outdoor open-air cinema where you sit in deck chairs and watch a movie. We went and saw "Bran Nue Dae" last week, it was awesome! We saw a cute little possum there and it sniffed Tony's toe. We didn't get to bed till midnight.

Meophy

Darwin Wavepool / Leanyer Water Park

Last week we went to Leanyer water park where there were water slides, water play grounds, normal play grounds, a pool and the skate park. We will have heps of fun whenever we go there! And its all free!

Another day we went to the Wave pool in Darwin. We got to use blow up water tubes and big boogie boards, it was lots of fun. They had the waves on for 20 minutes and of for 10 minutes. We didn't want to leave!

Zomury

Mataranka

Heading North from the Marbles, we stopped off for supplies at Tennant Creek, then continued on up the Stuart Highway, Times tables drowning out the sound of the rain. We came across a heavy load (generator for the Alice Springs Power station) Wow, what a sight! 144 wheels on the trailer and 2 semis coupled together pulling it and one more coupled to the back to push it.

We made it into Daly Waters by about 4 pm, but no caravan sites left (filled up by 1.30pm) so we had to back track a few kms to the Hi-way Inn, where I scrambled out of the car while still moving to beat the other 4 vans just pulling up, to secure the last site... phew a bit naughty but hey Mataranka was another 160kms.

Off early and into Mataranka for a swim in the thermal pools, ahhhhh Lovely!!!!!

Cass

Devil's Marbles

Today we went to Devil's Marbles. We went on a long walk up, over and around them, we even went on the bush walk to the biggest roundest marble of all.

Later that evening we went star (satellite) gazing and went to a camp fire talk, I even saw my first UFO. (lol, see pic.)

MEOPHY xoxo

Wycliffe Well

Today we stayed at Wycliffe Well, it is the UFO capital of Australia! We went to the cafe for dinner, there they had lots of newspaper articles and pictures about the sightings of UFO's and alien encounters. There they had talking parrots, some rabbits, donkeys and even some emu's. All the buildings had murals and pictures painted on them. Me and Meophy were woken up in the middle of the night by a bright light and noise like a hum. lol

Zomury xoxox