8th Sept 2010
Today we have made it to the Gulf of Carpentaria "Karumba" from Georgetown via Normanton, home of the giant croc.
We will stay for a few days or we can catch up with school work, washing, and to put all the winter clothes away, we will not need them for a while, it's hot out here, damn hot.
As we arrived our car temperature gauge showed the outside temperature at 39% and it was hot and humid. I'm hoping we can get a powered site so we can use the airconditioining in the van.
The kids were really tired and very whingy, so we decided not to cook and go to the local tavern and have a look at the sunset that everyone was taking about. It was spectacular and we started to get a nice breeze, so it was cooling down.
We meet a couple with 2 boys that were 12 and 10. The parents were taking their kids on a road trip just like use but both there children had a disease called Battens disease (Neuronal Ceriod Lipfusinosesor NCL). Children have seizures and become disabled and they usually only live till they're in their early 20s.
They have a website called
http://www.thecartyboys.com.au/. They are holding a charity night at Cronulla Leagues Club in December if anyone can make it.
Finding out about all this we realise our bad day isn't really that bad.
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