Just to let you know I have arrived safely in Alice Springs - I'm at the office waiting for my lift to the station now. It's a beautiful day - about 32 degrees with lovely blue sky.

Still not my picture!! Emily left Australia yesterday, and is now in Singapore and Malaysia. So I am on my own now! Eeeeeeeeek! On Sunday Emily and I set off for Myilly Point, a National Trust precinct of houses that survived Cyclone Tracy, and walked past it and round it and under it and never found it! We gave up looking, and had lunch in the casino of all places (it's scary how many people are just sat infront of the machines pressing buttons looking bor...

Again, not my picture, but very possibly a termite mound that we saw in Litchfield NP. Can't find a PC that will let me put my pictures up from Kununurra and Darwin yet, but will keep trying. On Thursday evening (after I last updated this) Emily and I went to the Mindil Beach sunset market with Judith, our Dutch roommate. The markets were really busy and when it was sunset the beach was absolutely packed with people. I have never seen so many people in one place...

I would just like to point out that the photo above is not my picture but it belongs to the website - I have no intention of ever getting that close to a thorny devil! We arrived in Darwin last night and finally have mattresses again. Oh yes. Yesterday saw the exciting event of the Ceremonial Chucking of the Roll Mat which was a very happy occasion for all. I am writing from inside Parliament House, n the Northern Territory Library where the air conditioning ...