Some recent pictures of Elliot and Tennant Creek activities

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What has been happening from Ian and Karen

Hi I tried to stream the pictures but I seem to be missing one step so after a morning of trying I am trying this so I hope the numbers print to pictures on the blog. Oh the wonders of didgital technology. I

Tuiana has gone to work in Brisbane we miss her not being here. She left in the night and arrived at Mt Isa next morning and caught a plane from there in the evening.  Yes sometimes it gets cold at night here but not often.

 I enjoyed being part of the holiday programme at Tennant Creek working with Emma.

At Elliot with Karen and Robert ,Kangaroo and bush turkey for tea ,I did a magic show Karen cooked and painted faces.

Celebrating Territory day plenty of fireworks at Tenant Creek. The girls here will miss Tuianans'  beauty treatment. 

Show day was fun again, Karen and Robert were busy on a health promotion stall.That not it in the boxing pavilion.

Karen has been out recently around the Stations. She is off to Alice next week for a course so we head down on Saturday.

I have been  enjoying  Ephesisans of late .  I'll share with you I have put in a song prayer (chords on request)


I give thanks for you
and, I ask for you
that you may have the Spirit of wisdom
and revelation
so you may know him
and run the race in joy of his grace
knowing him


God Bless 
Arohanui
Ian and Karen

Kakadu and Kathine Gorge

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)

May

  Thought it was hight time I let you know what we are doing. Karen always seems to be out, coming back or getting ready to go again on the Barkly Areomedical Mobile.

She his getting to ready to go out again after next week.  So has been getting supplies, immunizations and prescription etc are up to date.
rontacting the stations and the Dr. r and a new pilot this time. He went  on the last run with the pilot who has been doing it for a long time.


I have been enjoying working  with Psycus Cirucus who have been teaching circus skills   here.
We are also enjoying being part of Bugs Barkly Ukele Group. We even have played at a couple of local events.  It is fun playing with others and getting to know more people here.

We are involved in the Op Shop at the Church , I have been taking a service every three weeks. Karen is the main person on the piano.
Tuiana is enjoying work at ther Primary School, I was there the other day and I heard  someone say,"Miss Tui will sort it our for you."
The weather is a little it cooler though we still have the air con on quite a bit.

Karen had a week at Ali Kurung doing health checks we both stayed at Wycliffe well  and,she drove in each day.
Wycliffe Well is the UFO captial of Australia Joel advised me to and wear a tinfoil hat. We survived.

That is  a little of what we are up take care.
Arohanui
Ian ,Karen and Tuiana

Pictures From Joel of the NT

hope you enjoy some of the pictures i took while in the Northern Tertiary last Christmas
-Joel

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After the Wet

At present Karen is away flying with the Dr around the station in with the Barkley Areomedical service. They were meant to go last week but five of the airstrips were still too wet to land on.


Some of the stations employ a large number of people so they appreciate the health service coming to them. Here is some information on the Barkly region.


The Barkly Tableland runs east from Tennant Creek towards the Queensland border and is among the most important cattle grazing areas in the Northern Territory.

Roughly the same size as the United Kingdom or New Zealand, the region consists largely of open grass plains and some of the world’s largest cattle stations. It runs as far south as Barrow Creek, north above Elliott and west into the Tanami Desert.

I am kept busy with cooking washing etc. Though I do find time to read ,play the banjo and small pipes.

I have been helping at the youth centre after school with a group of young people who are interested in clowning. They want to do something in the Desert Harmony Celebration later in the year.

I have now taken three service at Church here, the minister leaves at Easter so the three of us who take services will have a bit more to do.
Karen has taken on the job as oversight for the op-shop. where good clothes are sold for $1 ,so it is quite popular.

Karen, Tuinana and myself have joined Bugs, Barkly Ukulele Group. It is lead enthusiastically by NZ teacher here. We have a 'gig' at Nikininyu coffee shop on Saturday night.

The wet is about over, and the windy time is here with a lot of red dust blowing in the wind.

Enjoy Autumn for us.

God Bless, Arohanui

Ian and Karen