NZ. Kakadu Tennant Creek Plus...

This occasional blog seems quite occasional of late. Due to travel here and there.

When here at Tennant Creek we have been been busy Karen with health and I have been helping with Psycus helping with barbecue to feed the hungry performers, the Op shop and church and Barkly Arts and Bugs Barkly Ukulele Group.

We enjoyed a quick trip home to celebrate Molly Wright's 21st a happy occasion, the four days travel there and back was well worth it. Home is where the heart is!

Sorry if you didn't see us this as time was pretty tight, we kept moving as we seem to do here, busy in one place and soon somewhere else.

Karen was straight back on the Areo medical run around the stations and I was off to Ali Kuruung to do a magic show for a health expo in the community there.
I have also had a magic show for a birthday party here.
We have played the Ukulele's at open mike sunset concert at Nikiniyu Artists market.

Karen was grounded at one of the stations for while as they had a bird strike and engineers had to fly out from Alice to check the plane.
She is very brave, and always seems to have an adventure of some sort.

After being here for year she is also very popular helping those who are so isolated often getting phone calls between visits for advise.

We had a John Flynn celebration at the mission hut at church. We moved all the clothes out of the Op shop and the Country Women's Association put on a high tea which was delicious.
It is 100 years of work by the Australian Inland Mission. John Flynn is featured on the $20 note he headed up the mission and started the Flying Doctor service.

We have been to Alice for Karen to get a broken tooth fixed and also meet Karens sister Thelma and Roger off the Ghan they had come up from Adelade. They are with us for three weeks.
They came to Elliot where Robert and Karen were working in the community doing public health re drugs and alcohol

Queens Birthday Australia, this past weekend we went back up to Eliot for the night Karen dropped of medicine at the clinic. Next day it was off to Mataranka for a swim
in the hot creek there on the edge of Kakadu National Park.
We went on and stayed at Katherine going up the Gorge in Nitimuluk (place of the Cicada) National park.

We did the two gorge trip with Thelma and Roger saw a number of crocodiles and stunning sights of the gorge and its history.

Karen and Roger so taken by it wanted to see from the air so they went on two hour flight over Kakadu in a small fixed wing aircraft.

We swam again at Mataranka on our way home yesterday.
Today Karen is yet flying again she was off this morning to Lake Nash by the Queensland border to help out at the clinic there for the week, she flies back Friday.

Well must try and get this posted as they say I'll finish with some local wisdom I heard the other day,

No one owns the land.

The land owns you.

Listen to the land.

Keep in touch

God bless, Arohanui

Ian Karen and Tuinana

(and the Wilson Eggeling Mob)