A Change in Plans

We came to Australia with no real plans for the trips and such that we would take while we were here.  To be honest, it was a pretty major undertaking just packing up the house, getting visas and getting ourselves over here.  So we have been planning some and flying by the seat of our pants some.

We chatted on these pages a while ago about perhaps visiting Asia on the third school break holiday.  Well it turns out that September is the rainy season and for that and other reasons, we have pretty much decided to wait until 2017ish to visit Asia.  Over Christmas maybe?

So the new plan is to head to the Northern Terrotory for the third break.  Never mind that Dave and I have already planned a weekend away at Uluru (Ayer's Rock) in the NT the first weekend in September.  This country is enormous and there is no risk that we'll double back on ourselves by mistake, trust me!

It is HOT in the NT.  All of Australia has signs like this:

But most of Australia doesn't actually use all of the little sections.  NT does.  What part of the NT are we aiming for?  Darwin of course!  That happy red dot right at the top!

 While nothing is booked yet, we are investigating multi day 4x4 style camping tours that would see us out with a group for 3-5 days to explore the massive National Parks and the Australian Outback. The rest of the time we'll hang out in Darwin and maybe Broome.  There will not be a campervan, the trains from Sydney are already all booked (and would cost more than $10k for the family anyhow) and there is no way that we could dive without dying.  This will definitely be a trip for flying.