My name is Geoff... and my wife (Elle) of 30 something years, and I, are heading to Darwin mid to late next week to visit our 2 kids, partners, and the eldest daughter's daughter...our first and only (so far!) Grandchild...for 2 glorious weeks!
When we get there, there will be heaps of fishing, some more fishing, and then we are going fishing, and we may even end up at a spot called Four Mile, which is a bit south of Darwin, for a few days where were probably gonna fish for something different to do
Elle LOVES fishing, and yes, we are taking the 2 Hobie Outbacks on the roof racks, but will NOT be taking them off anywhere north of Katherine NT
I let her convince me, after many denials on my behalf :8 , to buy myself a Minelab GPX5000, and am still in the stages of putting the round white thingy on the end, wrapping the tv antenna around the black broomstick, and plugging it into a blue box that reminds me of an old radio box from the 60's with dials and switchy things that have words like Threshold, and Disc. (something I think I slipped a while ago) and other stuff that I think I heard about on a Harry Potter movie. At least I apparently also have some cool black headphones that I can listen to Led Zep, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, oh...and Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka...NOT. Probably more happy listening to Grinspoon et al these days, but I do call it quits at Gangnam Style
We are leaving the home port of Bundaberg and taking about a week to get to Darwin, after stopping at places like Bedford Weir, Lloyd Jones Weir, Longreach Waters (Lake Woods NT) etc. (fishing!) and after the obligatory 2 weeks of child minding, both young and old we are taking the next 2 weeks to get back so are looking for some likely places we can stop at and do something different than damn fishing We've got the Warrego area of the NT planned, and coming back through places like Clermont, but does anyone have any other places that we might try and get this blue beast making attractive noises, apart from the baby crying that Elle thinks all the You Tube videos make the 5000 sound like?
Newbie?? How did you guess?? But even at 57 I still feel like a sponge when it comes to doing something different and new, so any help and advice would be much appreciated. Hope to put some photos, videos, reports and stuff back into the forum before, during, and after this trip.
Thanks All...Geoff
When we get there, there will be heaps of fishing, some more fishing, and then we are going fishing, and we may even end up at a spot called Four Mile, which is a bit south of Darwin, for a few days where were probably gonna fish for something different to do
Elle LOVES fishing, and yes, we are taking the 2 Hobie Outbacks on the roof racks, but will NOT be taking them off anywhere north of Katherine NTI let her convince me, after many denials on my behalf :8 , to buy myself a Minelab GPX5000, and am still in the stages of putting the round white thingy on the end, wrapping the tv antenna around the black broomstick, and plugging it into a blue box that reminds me of an old radio box from the 60's with dials and switchy things that have words like Threshold, and Disc. (something I think I slipped a while ago) and other stuff that I think I heard about on a Harry Potter movie. At least I apparently also have some cool black headphones that I can listen to Led Zep, Iron Maiden, Alice Cooper, oh...and Neil Diamond and Neil Sedaka...NOT. Probably more happy listening to Grinspoon et al these days, but I do call it quits at Gangnam Style
We are leaving the home port of Bundaberg and taking about a week to get to Darwin, after stopping at places like Bedford Weir, Lloyd Jones Weir, Longreach Waters (Lake Woods NT) etc. (fishing!) and after the obligatory 2 weeks of child minding, both young and old
we are taking the next 2 weeks to get back so are looking for some likely places we can stop at and do something different than damn fishing We've got the Warrego area of the NT planned, and coming back through places like Clermont, but does anyone have any other places that we might try and get this blue beast making attractive noises, apart from the baby crying that Elle thinks all the You Tube videos make the 5000 sound like?Newbie?? How did you guess?? But even at 57 I still feel like a sponge when it comes to doing something different and new, so any help and advice would be much appreciated. Hope to put some photos, videos, reports and stuff back into the forum before, during, and after this trip.
Thanks All...Geoff
