Off to Darwin

We have sold Evelyn's surfboard and have packed the car and pointed it in the directions of Darwin. It was a hard decision to turn my back on the coast that I have so grown to love over the last few months but it is time for a change in scenery. The sand of the beach is being swapped for the dust of the outback. It will look funny when we are over a thousand km inland with a surfboard on the top of the car but eventually I will make it to the West Coast and do some more surfing there. It looks like I will be doing the big loop around Australia. I'll be missing the North Coast of Queensland but I have spent so much time on beaches and in rainforests here that I'm not sure it is worth traveling all the way up the East Coast when the West coast is so alien to me.

We are going to try to make it to Darwin reasonably quickly without messing around too much in Central but it is a long way and who knows what we will find out there. Evelyn's foot is getting better but there was no way she was going to get back in the salt water within two weeks.

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