The bank balance

Sometimes living the life on a yacht is very good for saving money and living frugally. Australia is not the place for this kind of existence! Recently we have spent most of our time on land than sailing which has been great fun at times. This leads me to our time in Darwin, someone told me is the tenth most expensive city in the world to live in. Before leaving the sort of civilisation that Australia offers which is very similar in many ways to home, a few of us decided to have a lot of fun in between working on Proteus. This included watching the Australian Super Bike Series, go karts on an outdoor circuit which have been the best so far, Ed from Crazy Daisy's birthday night out and a couple of nights in Litchfield National Park camping. This was the best bit for me with twelve of us in three 4x4s barbecues, dust track driving, water crossings, getting filthy dirty, swimming under waterfalls, seeing some wildlife and having a few drinks. See here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzJ2_u4WkjA&feature=em-upload_owner. Tipperary marina was also an interesting place to get in and out of with no room for fenders either side going through the lock gates and literally a foot in front and behind once the gates were closed. I'm glad we did it all, now the only area of Australia I haven't visited is the east coast, maybe another year