Another night with the waves crashing loudly, and a visit from those little mice using the top end of the bed as a highway. I just nestled further down the bed! We discovered this morning that they also found my QV handcream was tasty, as they had chewed through the tube in a few places. I also later discovered that at some point I had left our suitcase open, and they had climbed into the bag of rubbish I was taking home, and they had chewed the discarded IV line and drunk the fluid remaining in it. Messy little buggers. We also had worked out they had chewed the bottom of the bathroom door enough to get under it and into the bedroom, and were getting into the building through the gap around the floor where the toilet plumbing was coming through.
After another yummy breakfast, we packed up and headed back to Nhulunbuy on the boat. We had enjoyed our brief island resort life. Back on the mainland, we caught up on washing and food shopping. We had a quiet day, waiting until it was time to park up the Clippers for display at the Territory Day celebrations. We had been invited to be on display.
the guitarist in the band i played in on sunday, is the local radio DJ, and he came down to look at the busses while we were on the island , he took a stack of photos and posted them on the radio station facebook page. there were so many comments that i reached out to him to see if he wanted the busses on display at the fireworks, it was a resounding yes but with more fruity language. so we arranged to do it. They had a big event with food stalls, children's activities, the upcoming band King Stingray performing and fireworks to finish the day. You can still purchase fireworks here in the NT but only one day of the year, today. David ordered some but is saving them to use another time.
The crowd gradually grew, and it was so encouraging to see so many of the Nhulunbuy population attending, Indigenous, Non-Indigenous with cultural backgrounds from across the world, alike (we estimate about 2,000 of the 3,000 population were there). As the darkness crept in, the fireworks started being let off here there and everywhere, and that was before the official event fireworks. These Territorians are worse than our local Doonsiders!! (We get fireworks let off often in our area). While Matt was working on the photos we are sharing today, the local constabulary asked to have a look inside. It was a good night of music, fun and fireworks. (It may be along night of Fireworks...)
i'm adding photos at 11pm and yes the crackers are still going off everywhere. i ran into the rest of the band blokes from the hog shed gig again while watching the band, the drummer Luke is still raving about it and wants me to stay for another week to get another sunday night in. alas i cant do it.
the hog shed owner wants us to come over in the morning on our way out to get a photo of the busses at the shed, so we'll do that then hit the road.
better go to bed , got 9 hours of crap road tomorrow ...
