Morning Came the 44th Day

At Katherine ..still on a bus! Stopped for our one and only break. Time to chat with an interesting fellow passenger. He was travelling to Canberra to see his daughter and other places to bring back a 4wd he had bought. He lived in Wyndham, worked mostly around Halls Creek in construction, and obviously had good relationships with the locals. But appreciated the challenges of Kununurra and related great insight into the generational differences. 

When we arrived in Darwin by bike in 2008 there were only two high rises..the city has grown.

We had breakfast and a leisurely walk.

This area is about to be redeveloped. 

John McDouall Stuart...my favourite explor er in whose footsteps we rode up the centre.

Taxi driver to the airport: He wad originally from Timor Leste. - one of eleven. 8 came to Australia. They all married different nationalities, Thai, Chinese, American, Vietnamese, Phillipino,...his own children all married Indigenous......."we have this really big family!" If ANYONE gets in my cab and says "racist", they get a BIG story! He was telling us about his more difficult customers- it was a long way to the airport!

Plane was late leaving but interesting talk with a woman ( in the queue) who worked in the local  govt. Flight was really good but I privately though the buses and trains are always on time and no queues or security!

Taxi queue at Cairns was long.........

Day 44 ended after 24 hours continuously on the move. BIG sleep😴