Moving On

We moved caravan parks yesterday, about 10km further out on the edges of Darwin. The van was due for its 10,000 km service, so we took the opportunity to have that done. The new park has its pluses and minuses. It is much quieter and shadier than the other one (which was under the flight path from the airport not far away - at times it sounded like the planes were about to land on our roof in the middle of the night), and the sites are larger so we don't have neighbours only an arm's length away. However, they don't have ensuite sites, and we are a little further away from the facilities block than we would like, so showering is a lot less convenient.

John likes the idea of the onsite bar/bistro, we took advantage of happy hour after we checked in yesterday afternoon to have a quiet beer by the pool.

The main downside only became apparent in the early evening yesterday - there is obviously some problem with their electricity supply and we lost power 4 times in the space of 2 hours. Each time it happened you could hear a cry of annoyance go up all over the park. Lucky we have a battery in the caravan so we could flip the lights over to DC each time, but it was very annoying, we were lucky it didn't happen while we were microwaving the rice to go with our curry. One of our near neighbours said that the same thing had happened the last couple of nights, we hope it isn't going to continue for the entire 4 weeks we are here.