Saturday, Feb 21, 2004 at 17:34
G'day Diesel1,
I arrived in
Darwin at the beginning of the wet season in 1968 and just loved the place. Moved there and back around Oz a number of times but the bulk of my living in
Darwin was from'77 to '92. After the cyclone, life had changed and by the early eighties I nearly had a seizure when I saw pollies wearing ties. I spent some time in
Batchelor and
Adelaide River over our stay up north and finally moved south to
Alice Springs at the middle of 92. We pushed off from Alice in mid 95 and went on the wallaby till end '99 when we settled here in
Peterborough SA(cheap housing then).
Darwin has had its ups and downs development wise and I was involved in a lot of development projects in ther early '80's. I was also one of those responsible for the development of Hidden Valley Motor Sports Complex and especially in the 4x4 area. I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of
places in the Territory in my time up there and had enormous fun in the 4x4 club scene on hair raising waterlogged trips in the wet seasons.
I do feel that the rush for development has spoiled the wildness and the casualness of the
Top End but I have fond memories of my time up north and no regrets.
After the age of 50 the heat becomes a bugger to contend with and so the time to depart from the tropics finally arrived.
Cheers,Willem
Little Dip Cons Park S.A.
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