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This month will be a little light on on information, as for the first time for many, many months we have slowed down a little and actually had time to draw breath. That has made a nice change, because although we are on a working holiday, life has been a bit hectic. There is so much to see and do that you really have to stay on your toes and keep moving to fit it all in. So the beginning of the month saw the Priestley's move on for the homebound segment of their trip away. They decided on heading south to Port Augusta, across to Broken Hill and back up to Bundaberg. Surprisingly it was actually shorter to go that way than it was to go back north to the Three Ways and across to Bundy. Go figure. They had a week at the Rock and had a great time, exploring and with time to rest and chill out. That's the way a holiday should be, not like many others trying to see 7 cities in 7 days. That's madness. The more I speak to the traveling public, the more I think 1/2 of them are off t...

  Welcome to yet another month. They are rushing by so fast that it's making my head spin. While we were in Alice Springs at the end of August getting the ambulance serviced, we picked Marina up off the plane from Darwin. Marina has been mentioned previously in this web page. We first met her in Wadeye where she was staying with Brin and Sarah from work (the guys with the boat and motor bikes that we used). She was back visiting Wadeye again (its that sort of place), so we rang her to say she should come to see the Canyon as she was relatively close (about 1500 km, give or take a few). It was good to see her again and she ended up staying for a week. Marina is a very low maintenance guest who helps out 200% and really pulls her weight. She was a pleasure to have to stay. During her visit we did the Canyon rim walk (about a 3 1/2 hours walk) and it rained while we were up there. They say it only rains 3 days a year so I guess that made us wet, cold but lucky. We did actually get to ...