Karumba!!!

Well 12 hours on the bus and we had made it to Karumba. I'll try my best to describe it for you. The main road to Karumba is sometimes 2 lanes and sometimes just a single lane with big dirt strips down the sides so if a road train comes you've got somewhere to pull off the road. Every 150kms you may come across(if you dont blink) the next town. Which usually consists of a petrol pump/shop/cafe. Oh and a toilet block. There are no dead possums on the roads like New Zealand, but are lots of dead kangaroo's instead. And lots of barren land with thousands of termite hills and some of these are huge. Karumba its self, sits on a river which is quite close to the sea. It is in the middle of Croc Country. And i might venture to say is alot bigger than the towns on the main road we passed to get here. Karumba has a Seafood Restaurant(where Mike and I work), a post office/bank, a bakery, a butchery, a supermarket, a pharmacy/beauty shop/furniture shop, a pub, a library, a police house and another bait shop. Oh and there is also Zinifex(a mining company). These are all within about 200mts of each other. Unfortunately the pub is one of the furtherest things from us and just to bloody far to walk to in this heat. So we send Mick down after work (10pm) to get our supplies. But there is a bit to do here, you can take off to the point. This is about a 10 minute drive to the mouth of the river it has another pub there. There is also a recreation centre with a tennis court. And a golf course, let me tell you about the golf course. Tahuna has nothing on this one. Because its so hot, there is not one blade of grass. so you are pretty much playing on dirt/sand. The greens are the best though, before you putt you have to get the rake and smooth out the sand so you have a smooth putting surface, ha ha ha ha ha. In the wet season they say the course changes so instead of playing on sand, you have to play around the great big puddles/lakes that appear on the course. ha ha ha. The temperature here is a steady 30 degrees day in day out. In the evening it cools to a very nice 16, and all the locals get there winter woolly's out. I saw my first kangaroo the other day, it is great. The job is good here and we are both enjoying it very much. I am looking forward to the next adventure which life throws at me. And wonder if its going to be a bit bigger than Karumba, I dont like my chances of it.