All by myself....!!

Well not really as Darwin actually has other people here (weird after remoteness of west coast oz!), but Julie and Chloe have left the west coast and I'm travelling solo for the first time EVER! End of a fabulous era!!!

Anyway, lets go back to Broome....

So Julie leaves Broome to surprise my cousins Terri and Derek in Melbourne by arriving 10 days earlier than she was supposed to! Chloe and I get up voluntarily at 6.30am to walk her to the airport. (Thats right - walk her to the airport!) Can't believe she is going, but the McCosh sisters will be reunited soon enough!!!!

Our leaving night in Broome had all the makings of a top night. Great banter, loads of dancing and laughs, but with the added extra of Mr Mark Bundaberg attending! How funny! Every time someone bought a bundy and coke, the sticker went on Marks face, neck, top etc. Was hilarious! Danny and Mark are the highlight of the earlier part of the evening. I'm not going to mention Danny's chat up lines - you'll have to ask Chloe about that one! Getting back to the hostel, Chloe and I decide its high time to teach some Irish boys the highland fling - which Chloe dedicates a good few hours too, and wonders why on earth her legs are sore 2 days later! Next morning there is no sign of Mark and Danny and we won't let the Irish boys check out until they prove they can do the highland fling. Chloes work was fab and they showed us it successfully. Leigh-Ann would of been proud! Eventually Danny and Mark end up down to breakfast and we find out Mark has been watering some plants with carrots during the night, and Danny ended up in a completely different dorm room that he was meant to be in! Weird part is that his clothes were in the correct bed and the new dorm room was miles away from his! What a mystery!


Anyway, onwards and literally (1000k) upwards to Kununurra. We head for the overnight greyhound bus that will only take 14 hours. (Short ride then!) Managed to sleep for most of it, but did awake with the driver slamming his brakes on in the middle of the night and us being faced by about 14 white bulls on the road. Was pretty mad!

So from Kununurra, we do a 2 night camping trip to the Bungle Bungles. This was amazing scenery, however the tour was aimed at the retired end of the market and we didn't get to do any challenging hikes or go for any swims. The roads to the National park were really windy, through large puddles and bumpy. Caz - if ur reading this, think back to Fraser island and double the pain!

So spent 2 nights in a tent there. Felt a massive sense of achievement when Chloe and I put our tent up, however this was short lived as it fell down approx 2 mins after it was up! Its meant to b a boys job anyway! Roger (tour guide) was making us get up at 4.30 so we could go for walks when it wasn't too hot, so we were going to bed at 7pm. Seriously. The flies were driving us mad too - had to scream every couple of hours to let out the frustrations!! Was glad the tour was over and we were headed back, although it was great to see the bungles.




So back to Kununurra, and obviously we have to have a leaving night... So meet up with Colin and his tour who are a couple of days behind us, and we have drinks in the Kununurra hotel, which shuts at 10pm. Every pub in the west seems to shut at ridiculously early times. Very excited bars in Darwin are open till 4am! So we end up sitting on the pavement having a good laff at the camping expeditions till silly times in the morning! All good!

So next day involves a greyhound bus and Chloe feeling sick after drinking Old Crow or something ridiculous!! Get to Darwin, check in and meet Paul and Andy - who we have been bumping into all the way up the coast. Turns out they ran out of petrol about 80k's outside Katherine and had to show a bit of leg and do a bit of hitchiking to get petrol and take it back to the car! That is why I go on tours!!!

Chloe headed off for the airport to get her flight to Sydney for a few days before hitting NZ. Again, was sad seeing goodbye, but I know there will be NZ shennanigans to look forward to soon.

So I'm all by myself, but have met people that I've been seeing on the way up the coast, so not feeling too lonely yet! Went to the outdoor deckchair cinema last night with a girl from the dorm. The coolest cinema ever!

So going to chill out in Darwin for a while. Its so nice being in one place for a bit where I don't need to worry about moving, packing and checking in!!! The joys of travelling eh!!