Just an advisory one re: brakes

Hi Willem,
New bus looks good, similar colouring to my old GQ, I'm sure it will give you long and reliable service, needs a few bits and pieces, mind you it's good to start from where you are that way you're sure that everything is done right and you're not trying to fix someone elses problems. Good one.

So Willem,

When were you in Darwin? I was there from 1971 to 1989. Use to 4wd in Leanyer Swamp, Holmes Jungle, Dripstone, Casuarina Beach.
In my early years the Pill Box on Casuarina beach was well and truly back in the sand dunes but by the time we left it was out on the beach.
Did Jim Jim Falls 4 times before it became a national park.
Was lucky enough to do Death Adder Gorge (that was a fabulous place) before it was closed off for supposedly scientific research.
As well as many other places around the top end.

Hi Rod,

I arrived in Darwin in the wet of '68 and from then until '96 spent 20 years in the Top End. Drove into Twin Falls in '77 in a Suzuki with the Suzuki Club. Was on the first advisory committee for Kakadu Plan of Management. Ran tours into Kakadu 79 to 82. Visited DEAF Adder Gorge on a number of occasions before it was closed off. Spent many boozy days at Cooinda drinking beer with Tom Opitz. Drove up on to the Arnhemland Escarpment in 78 via Gimbat and did another sortie into an area known as Snowdrop in Arnhemland... Ran Boat Tours on the South Alligator River......It was a good time of my life...I can go on for hours.......:-)

Giday Willem,

For all the times we went to Jim Jim we never got to Twin Falls basically cause at the time we didn't know it existed, we always came in up stream from it. I know that with walking in that water me goolies would creep right back up inside... they weren't silly.

Are yes Cooinda... there is/was another place in that area that was set up as a tourist type croc hunters camp I'm trying to remember the name I think it started with 'P' it'll come to me. The house had bamboo walls inside.

Would have been the second persons to go into UDP Falls one year after the wet. I say the second cause when we got in there was only one other vehicle and in order for them to get in the bloke had actually built timber bridges to cross the erosion gullies. He said plenty of time nothing else to do so why not.

Probably me worst/longest bog was on the way into Butterfly Gorge past all the Black soil and onto speargrass covered sand plains where I just ran off the compressed centre section of the track broke through the surface crust and straight down... this happened around 2pm Sunday arvo and got out around 3am on the Monday morning, and course the nearest tree was just out of the reach of the cable for the PTO driven winch plus the wrong direction as it was only going to take us further into the quagmire.

Met me wife in Darwin... 32 years later still going strong. We're now in Perth. Like you say good times, many memories and could go on for hours.

do it