Trip to Kata Tjuta and Uluru with Emu Run Tours

Picked up at 6am then breakfast on the bus,lunch on the bus, dinner at Uluru.
An eighteen hour day, over 330 photographs,but a good trip with Emu Run Tours,who I can recommend!


First stop was the Mt Ebenezer Road House and a view of Mt Conner (taller than Uluru)


Then it was a walk into Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)

#3 Trip to Alice this year

Not coming to Alice again!!
I am working at the Alice Springs Hospital again and it seems I bring extreme weather. As I write we have been warned about a major thunderstorm about to hit and I can hear it now.
Leaving the airport it was easy to see a changed landscape from my two previous trips this year, as there was already much flooding
The flight was delayed by half an hour because of weather. It then took an hour to get to motel from airport because roads were flooded and got there via Power Station.




I took lots of photo's and met 4 lovely speech pathologists up a gum tree (true!!)

Sarah ,(one of the speechies) offered to get me to work on tomorrow (roads still flooded).

Parap Market

Perhaps the heat and humidity was too much for this little one, fast asleep on Mum's massage mattress





Helliconiums always so colourful..

Always worth snapping a shot , the Beehive Gingers (Zingiber spectabile)are stunning to look at.



I saw library colleague, Tita and her partner there.

Green Frog at night

I went out to check on the Giant Grasshoppers at night and near them was this frog

Peta Kruse's farewell morning tea

One of my former team member's at CDU is retiring, I was invited to her morning tea..
There were a lot of staff there and I know they will miss her good humour and concern.

Garden delights

I found this little guy in our letterbox at home when I checked at lunchtime.
So I popped him into the garden


This evening I found this really big Grasshopper (Giant Valanga, Valanga irregularis.) eating a bush. I asked an expert overnight via email, thanks David Rentz for quick reply.This is a book he coauthored.

The new wheels

Sadly even this vehicle is showing signs of bleaching by the fierce sun here. It is at least built this century and kinder on fuel with two less cylinders and 1.5 less liters in capacity.

Cheesiest shots

Recently Jayshree invited Hugh and I around for a meal and she surprised us with dessert. She picked up this fantastic New York Cheese cake from the TAFE Bakery school at the Palmerston campus of Charles Darwin University. She was protective of my health (encouraged by Hugh) so I was only allowed one portion on the night!

Hugh has taken to wearing prescription lenses so he is looking more like me..

Final Mindil Beach market for 2008.

The final Mindil Beach market for 2008.It closes during the Wet and will return in April.
It was packed so I escaped early!

Visitor from East Arnhem

Our colleague Nicky visited our library today. She manages our library at the Gove District Hospital in Nhulunby , Gove, East Arnhem Land