Monica and Toby buy a house

Its a nice house but its not this one

Monica and Toby have bought a lovely 3 bedroom house in Bellamack, Palmerston - a dream come true for them!   They'll be moving in over the weekend.

Rosanna and Shannon in town

Great to have Rosanna and Shannon in town visiting as we miss them a lot.   We'll get to see them on our NZ holiday in the middle of the year.  We had a nice day at Litchfield today swimming etc.  We swam at Buley - Wangi was closed but we had a look anyways.

They are still hoping to move up this way towards the end of the year.

Moving rural maybe!

Our offer on a block in Virginia has been accepted and we're just waiting on finance now.  This means we'll rent out our house in Bagshaw Crescent in Gray once we move so lots of work to do!   Our Palmerston house needs lots of work done - for instance the bathrooms probably need to be totally redone as water is leaking through the tiles and walls etc.

The block is on Lowther Road and is a fairly basic but practical metal clad dwelling with 2 bedrooms with ensuites.  A third bedroom is outside and an outside bathroom.  There's also a large outdoor living area that we really like.

Fishing with Graham and Tim on the South Alligator

Paul did a day trip with Graham Pattemore and Tim Cowen to the South Alligator.   We didn't catch much (Graham caught one Barra) but was a good day although pretty hot at times.  Was good to go up to the bird rookery and Paul was able to get a few pics of chicks etc.  He also got a series of photos of a large croc taking a sick or injured egret on the bank.

Baby egrets at the rookery

Paul's photo makes the front page

David's 18th

We celebrated David's 18th with lots of pizza!  Was just a nice night at home with family and a few of Davey's mates.   We had the party on Saturday 22nd but his birthday was actually the Monday.

Big waves at Nightcliff

We had a fun time down at Nightcliff jetty with a huge tide with a big monsoon swell.   Aunty Kris is up and

Baggsy shouldn't have bothered with the umbrella

came along with Aunty Shirley also.   We went back the following night also.

Shirley, Gwenny and Kristine

Hmm don't buy this car in a few years

Paul rushing to get his camera safe before the wave hits

Expedition to Orchard Creek

A bunch of us went eventually found Orchard Creek this saturday.  Was a very nice little swimming hole and a fun drive.

A few of us even got bogged - as you can see from the video here