My nephew Thomas

Go West.......

I Know I have been extremely lazy and not posted anything on here in ages. Life has been pretty run of the mill lately so nothing much to talk about. Work is rarther full on, but at least we finally moved venues and now we have airconditioning ( a must now that Darwin appears to have entered the build up). Mum and Dad have come and gone, at the time of writing this they are with my uncle in NSW. They have had a great trip. While they were here we went out to kakadu and did the tourist thing, its amazing how something as awesome as Kakada, world heritage listed area, becomes so much of an everyday thing after you live up here for a while. We also spent a couple of days on their yacht sailing around Darwin.

Last weekend I went to Victoria River and Timber Creek. Timber Creek is the last stop before the WA border. A long way to go for a weekend but it was something new. The scenerey is amazing, very different to anywhere else I have been.

First off there was Joe Creek Picnic Area. Driving into this amphitheatre was awesome. The escarpment is lined with Palms where the water cascades down in the wet season. They look spectacular against the red rock face of the escarpment. This place would look awesome in the wet season with cascading down.

Then there are the Boab trees. They seriously are wierd trees. I took tonnes of pictures of them, purely cause they are so strange. The bark has an almost silver sheen which looks awesome at sunset, taking on the colour of the setting sun.

I camped at Big Horse creek which is just done the rd from Gergory's tree. gregory was the the leader of an expidition in this region and the date of his arrival is careved into one of the boabs. His camp was on the Victoria River. The Boabs are also sacred to the local aboriginal people and there is a huge fine if you are caught defacing them. It was really good to see this part of the country for the first time, will definately be back to explore the Kimberly one day.