Day 3
// November 25th, 2009 // Blog
Wednesday November 25
Another early start this morning, we were out of bed by 6am, enjoyed pancakes for breakfast and took ADIMOV Dreaming in the centre of town by bus at 8:15. We were greeted at Darwin Council Chambers by the Mayor of Darwin, Graeme Sawyer . Morgan did an interview with the local ABC Radio and photos were taken for the Darwin newspapers.
After the media fanfare and send-off from the Mayor, our journey began with Clancy riding the 32km back to Howard Springs in impressive time and hot conditions. It was our first taste of what’s to come.
The afternoon was spent putting the finishing touches on ADIMOV Dreaming, packing and preparing for tomorrow, and enjoying several cool-off dips in the two pools at our caravan park. (Jacob and Alistair also spent several hours getting a coconut down from one of the trees near our campsite, which was then used as the ball in a prolonged game of under-water rugby). After team meetings, we will be having an early night tonight, since we plan on leaving at 5:30am tomorrow in order to make the most of the cool conditions as soon as the sun is up. This means waking up at 0300 hours to get the tents packed up. As the saying goes: the “oh” in “oh-three-hundred-hours”, is because when the alarm goes off you say “ooooooooh my God it’s 3 o’clock in the morning.”
GG
Wednesday November 25
Another early start this morning, we were out of bed by 6am, enjoyed pancakes for breakfast and took ADIMOV Dreaming in the centre of town by bus at 8:15. We were greeted at Darwin Council Chambers by the Mayor of Darwin, Graeme Sawyer . Morgan did an interview with the local ABC Radio and photos were taken for the Darwin newspapers.
After the media fanfare and send-off from the Mayor, our journey began with Clancy riding the 32km back to Howard Springs in impressive time and hot conditions. It was our first taste of what’s to come.
The afternoon was spent putting the finishing touches on ADIMOV Dreaming, packing and preparing for tomorrow, and enjoying several cool-off dips in the two pools at our caravan park. (Jacob and Alistair also spent several hours getting a coconut down from one of the trees near our campsite, which was then used as the ball in a prolonged game of under-water rugby). After team meetings, we will be having an early night tonight, since we plan on leaving at 5:30am tomorrow in order to make the most of the cool conditions as soon as the sun is up. This means waking up at 0300 hours to get the tents packed up. As the saying goes: the “oh” in “oh-three-hundred-hours”, is because when the alarm goes off you say “ooooooooh my God it’s 3 o’clock in the morning.”
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