HOWARD SPRINGS

We got our grocery shopping done yesterday so hooray - we can eat reasonably well again! We had gotten to the stage of tinned food (baked beans on toast) on our last night in Kakadu. I spent most of yesterday afternoon getting this blog up to date and we then had happy hour with a few of our neighbours (which turned into about 3 hours) and had a great time. The caravan park put on a sausage sizzle and live entertainment so we wandered down there, had a couple of snags and listened to the concert. The entertainment was a youngish chap (estimate late 20s) singing and playing guitar. He had a pretty wide repertoire and sang reasonably well but his guitar playing was superb! It was a fun night.
We headed off to get an oil change on the car this morning and got lost but found our way again reasonably quickly (thank goodness for google maps on my phone). It was a bit cool this morning but not cold by any stretch of the imagination but all the locals were wearing jumpers and complaining about the cold! The mechanic who did our car said it is the first time in the 12 years he has lived in Darwin that he has had to wear a jumper. After the car was done we headed to the Casuarina shopping centre. We managed to find it without getting lost. It is a pretty big shopping centre and we wandered around, had lunch and got haircuts. We then decided to do a bit of a drive around in Darwin before heading back to Howard Springs. We managed to take a wrong turn and after driving in circles for a while we found the right road and off to Darwin we went. We drove around and got our bearings and noted a few things we want to see while we are here. There was an American war ship in the harbour and we watched it head out to sea. I did get a photo but haven't loaded it onto the computer yet so will post it another time.
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