Rhian and Callum - a years worth of hugs!

How wonderful to see the two of them again, for Shona it has been virtually a year so she was sooo excited when they arrived at 4am in Darwin airport. After they had a sleep and a swim in the pool we had a lovely evening at the wharf in Darwin watching the sun go down

What does that tell you about each of us!!!!

Next morning bright and early it was off to Kakadu National Park at the start of our 12 day Adventure Tours Australia trek from Darwin to Adelaide.

There were 14 of us on the trip (6 nationalities), although some people only did parts of the full trek with us. We were on a variety of overland vehicles and buses and had 3 guides, Tom for Kakadu, Audia Darwin to Alice Springs and Dave Ularu to Adelaide.

This is Tom our excellent story teller.

We were camping most of the time but it was permanent tents (certainly not 'glamping' though!) this is one for 4 of us! The best mattresses were definitely in the 'swags' - more later!

Darwin and Kakadu were hot and humid, being about 28C, so we seemed to be taken to places where swimming was the done thing - we were told that the rangers regularly checked for salt water crocodiles - ('salties' are the dangerous ones apparently)

VERY refreshing on a hot day! - and no crocs!