September 2008
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 ...