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Wednesday 28.7.

Our first stop today was near Jabiru in the Bovali Visitor Centre. It’s the headquarter, but the exhibition and the information shown was a bit disappointing to what we already had seen the days before. So we only spent about an hour there and then drove out of the Kakadu NP. After a short lunch break on the way we finally arrived in Berry Springs shortly after noon where we visited the Territory Wildlife Park. It was nice to walk on the shady footpaths through monsoon forests. The billabong was quite quiet, as most of the animals were sleeping or just hidden somewhere in the shade. All in all it was a relaxing afternoon which we finished with a refreshing bath in the adjacent pool in the nature park. Our last night in the camper we spent in Howard Springs. Drinking a few glasses of Moscato and watching the stars we probably sat the last time outside until late in the evening (in Melbourne it will be 20 degrees cooler…).

Thursday 29.7.

We got up early and prepared our luggage. Sibylle wanted to go to the hairdresser, so we went to the “Shear Shed”, a hair style saloon in Howard springs. While she got her haircut, I got one as well and also went to wash the car to pick her up a bit later. Finally we drove back to Darwin where we went for a last walk through the mall, before we soon had to return our camper in the late afternoon. With the taxi we drove to the airport where we soon realised that it would become a long, long night. Our plane, due at 6.30 PM, was still in Perth and now scheduled for 12.30 AM, which means a delay of about 6 hours. So we will probably arrive in Melbourne just for breakfast. Let’s hope we can sleep a bit in the plane.

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