Saturday evening at the Darwin Sailing Club

Saturday evening was a pleasant evening at the Darwin Sailing Club with Jayshree and Peter, as well as an American couple, the Rooneys.



The Rooney family, Beth and Joe and five children, are around the world sailors, on a 51 ft steel yacht "Leprechaun". They were telling us about their voyage so far. They are about two years into a 4 year around the world cruise. It was a good evening as Jayshree and Peter have also spent a lot of years in the Pacific and were sharing stories.

Saturday morning trip to Fogg Dam

Saturday morning I drove out to Fogg Dam. The water has all but receeded, but there were still hundreds of birds, especially magpie geese, ducks, egrets, and ibis.





There was a lot of mud though.

Busy social weekend

Friday evening was with colleague Malcolm Anderson with family and a friend of theirs, Margaret at Stokes Hill Wharf for a seafood meal.

A new companion for Molly

Dave and Pam have sent me a photo of the new addition to Cooinda, (Redwood Park, SA that is.)This was the noisest, most demanding kitten in the pet shop and that now appears to be queen of her new domain, still with no name.

Busy Friday..........

The day started early at 8:ooam with ALIA seminar Liber80n on the future of library education in Australia, with many guest speakers, including Stuart Ferguson from Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga and Gillian Hallam from QUT as well as locals.



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My day was busy with telephone conference to Queensland for an hour and a half, then a 2 hour meeting for the Bachelor of Nursing Advisory Group. I needed the drinks at the Darwin Sailing Club in the evening with some of the speakers!

An informative Saturday morning

I attended an informative talk at the Northern Territory Library by author, researcher, Pauleen Cass on "Researching your Family History". She focuses on the social context of genealogy which brings a lot of colour to ones family tree.
Here is Pauleen with Robin Hempel, Reference Librarian at NTL.

A quick trip to Katherine

On Friday, my Tassie visitor, Ken and I drove down to Katherine for a short visit. I visited one of the two campuses CDU has there. I spoke with the campus manager, Vicki Williams
and other staff. This is Vicki in the Katherine campus Resource Room.

On Saturday morning we had a 4 hour cruise on the Gorge in Nitmiluk National Park.




We saw this freshwater crocodile resting. It was just over a couple of metres long.

One of many balmy evenings with Ken

Ken was escaping a Tasmanian winter, so we enjoyed a number of meals out, as well as some home cooked barbecues.

Enjoying the food and a "sooky white"


And another evening sipping a red in my courtyard after a barbecue meal.

Trip To Ubirr Rock

We spent a great Sunday morning, with some drama at Ubirr Rock.


After leaving the car park where I saw this Grevillea pteridifolia, very attractive orange bottle-brush like flowers

we climbed to the top of the escarpment and had a good view of the Kakadu Wetlands.







Note my lack of proper foot wear in this shot.

Once again, I was stupidly not wearing the correct footwear for the conditions and I took a dramatic tumble down the last few metres of the climb, with camera and lenses making a noise on the rocks, people screaming (not me as I knew I had done the wrong thing!!) I was lucky to get away with bruised toes, scrapped knees, wrist and feeling foolish! Even a pretty European backpacker offered first aid.


Also interesting to see this Magela Creek crossing. When I visited with Pauline and Karen earlier this year in March (see March Archive) it was flooded and closed to all traffic.