The year is almost over so time to wrap up by sending around some of the pics from the second half of 2008.
Sunset at Mindil Beach
The dry season in Darwin has been beautiful. It really is 5-6 months of guaranteed blue sky and sunshine everyday!, and with lots of tourists, markets and events scheduled everywhere.
For us it continued to be pretty busy with Craig working long days, and often weekends, and me spending more and more time getting acquainted with the library (and hopefully medicine) as I prepped for our big 3rd year exams.
But as usual, working hard means we got to play hard too with the visits of friends, siblings, trips to Kakadu, the Gove Peninsula and to a couple great interstate weddings interstate.
Visitors
Champagne and sunset on Mindil beach with Mel and Andrew
Uni break up in the NT
Melissa and Andrew came up to visit in July to enjoy Litchfield, outdoor markets and lots of great food, wine and relaxation with us.
Litchfield's Florence Falls
Beautiful Wangi Falls
Shrimp on the barbie anyone??
Fishing with Richard
Craig's brother Richard came up in August for some great fishing and relaxing in the N.T.
Although we don't have any pictures of the fish here, Richard did catch a impressive 75 cm Barra (no exaggerating - ask Millie) which means it came in at 10 cm bigger than Craig's! A fact that he won't be allowed to forget anytime soon...
We do though have pictures of enjoying the mud crab and tropical daiquiri feast in the backyard!
Liz - we promise he was well behaved and thinking of you often...
Rural and remote health in the NT
One of the great benefits of doing medicine in the NT is that since it is a regional centre for much of north central Australia, we get the opportunity to be involved in lots of remote medicine, both with patients being flown into Darwin, and on flights and outreach trips to remote communities.
Flying over outback Australia in a little 4-6 seater plane.
Arriving at Lajamanu community for a 2-day medicine outreach clinic.
Arriving back at Darwin we got to see the city from the air.
Note: Craig is currently working on a resort project at the wharf on the left side of this picture.
We get to go on flights with physicians, surgeons, paediatricians and obstetricians to see how medicine is delivered to remote communities where access to health care is otherwise very limited. A very interesting experience, and unfortunately also a place where we tend to see lots of quite advanced disease.
In August, as part of the community medicine program my classmate Vanessa and I spent 2 weeks in the Laynhapuy Homelands in the Gove peninsula of East Arnhem Land.
http://www.ealta.org/index.html
Gove, or its Aboriginal name Nhulunbuy, is an interesting town which survives mainly on bauxite mining and as a central town for the Aboriginal communities of the area.
The refinery - an important part of the landscape
G3 mining camp
[G3 Camp: This is the huge miners portable camp that we stayed at, as seen from the town viewing platform. As there were few women at camp at the start of the trip, Vanessa and I attracted a little bit of attention. But it was actually not bad, with PLENTY of food, pretty decent accommodation and even pool and ping pong tables and free internet access. Definitely an interesting experience.]
Cycling out to East Woody Beach (Galaru)
As well as exploring the gorgeous area we got to join the outreach clinic doctors, nurses and midwives on health clinics to remote communities throughout the peninsula, helping with kids health checks, Aboriginal health worker training and setting up day clinics on carpets on the porches of the community school house.
Jennie, one of the local doctors and our NTCS teacher took us fishing and mud crap hunting with her adopted Aboriginal family. This was complete with damper cooked on a beach fire, and some dancing (apparently we weren't very skilled).
At the end of our stay we were lucky enough to be able to attend the 2008 Garma festival by being volunteers in the Miwatj health tent. This was a great cultural experience complete with basket-weaving (i'm still finishing it...), dancing, seminars, art and lots of band-aids and paw paw cream.
http://www.garma.telstra.com/
NT Clinical School at Little Bondi beach
The weddings (and a spot of rock climbing in between)
October was a busy month for weddings, starting with Matt and Pam's wedding in Bendigo.
In between the two weddings Craig met up with Michael (a mate from Adelaide) to do a bit of climbing in his favourite Aussie climbing playground at Mount Arapiles.
To Perth...
Lis insisted we put this one in.
She flew to Perth via Alice Springs and we flew right over Uluru! So we've seen it from all angles now!
(if you squint a little you can see it through the clouds just behind the wings)
To help celebrate Cathy and Alex's wedding we flew to Perth - the second last state on my To-do list, and the last on Craig's.
Perth is a really nice modern city overlooking the Swan River
All dolled up and prowling the streets of Perth for Cathy's hen night...
Pre-wedding BBQ at King's Park
Cottlesloe beach - getting to put our feet into the cold Indian Ocean!
Little Creatures brewery
Around Darwin
Darwin city seen from East Point
Nightcliff foreshore from the Jetty
If you look in the background of this photo, far in the distance is the big square hospital building. Apparently it is built from plans for a Calgary hospital, complete with snow shields and a heating system that works particularly poorly for the air conditioning required here in Darwin...
BBQ at the Nightcliff foreshore
Our backyard is a great place to see green frogs as they invariably come out of their daytime homes in our flower pots to amuse us during backyard BBQ dinners.
They don't look quite as bright green at night under our patio lanterns, but they are still pretty damn cute! And from their increasing noise, are getting excited about the upcoming rain.
Tales of South Australian Wines
(the end)
Canadian Thanksgiving seemed like a great occasion to open up the next SA wine, especially the one from Turkey Flats.
As usual, while I am trying to shove information into my brain at the
library Craig is working hard preparing some gourmet meals that make sure neither of us will shrivel away...
Mmmm... cranberry sauce.
Can't quite remember the occasion for breaking out this Yalumba wine - perhaps there wasn't one, just a night where a good wine seemed appropriate. This one was tasty, though pretty strong.
One day I hinted that what would be nice for a post-study meal was the tomate farcie that my grandmother used to make, and low and behold this is what I came home to.
what a brat...
Don't worry, as soon as I finished my exams, it was my turn so that the last wine of the series was eaten with a feast that I cooked for Craig this time.
Sunset at Mindil BeachThe dry season in Darwin has been beautiful. It really is 5-6 months of guaranteed blue sky and sunshine everyday!, and with lots of tourists, markets and events scheduled everywhere.
For us it continued to be pretty busy with Craig working long days, and often weekends, and me spending more and more time getting acquainted with the library (and hopefully medicine) as I prepped for our big 3rd year exams.
But as usual, working hard means we got to play hard too with the visits of friends, siblings, trips to Kakadu, the Gove Peninsula and to a couple great interstate weddings interstate.
Visitors
Champagne and sunset on Mindil beach with Mel and AndrewUni break up in the NT
Melissa and Andrew came up to visit in July to enjoy Litchfield, outdoor markets and lots of great food, wine and relaxation with us.
Litchfield's Florence Falls
Magnetic termite mounds
Beautiful Wangi Falls
A thoroughly enjoyable mid-year break!
As well as a great way to celebrate my birthday!
Shrimp on the barbie anyone??
Fishing with Richard
Craig's brother Richard came up in August for some great fishing and relaxing in the N.T.
Although we don't have any pictures of the fish here, Richard did catch a impressive 75 cm Barra (no exaggerating - ask Millie) which means it came in at 10 cm bigger than Craig's! A fact that he won't be allowed to forget anytime soon...
We do though have pictures of enjoying the mud crab and tropical daiquiri feast in the backyard!Liz - we promise he was well behaved and thinking of you often...
Rural and remote health in the NT
One of the great benefits of doing medicine in the NT is that since it is a regional centre for much of north central Australia, we get the opportunity to be involved in lots of remote medicine, both with patients being flown into Darwin, and on flights and outreach trips to remote communities.
Flying over outback Australia in a little 4-6 seater plane.
Arriving at Lajamanu community for a 2-day medicine outreach clinic.
Arriving back at Darwin we got to see the city from the air.
Note: Craig is currently working on a resort project at the wharf on the left side of this picture.We get to go on flights with physicians, surgeons, paediatricians and obstetricians to see how medicine is delivered to remote communities where access to health care is otherwise very limited. A very interesting experience, and unfortunately also a place where we tend to see lots of quite advanced disease.
In August, as part of the community medicine program my classmate Vanessa and I spent 2 weeks in the Laynhapuy Homelands in the Gove peninsula of East Arnhem Land.
http://www.ealta.org/index.html
Gove, or its Aboriginal name Nhulunbuy, is an interesting town which survives mainly on bauxite mining and as a central town for the Aboriginal communities of the area.
The refinery - an important part of the landscape
G3 mining camp[G3 Camp: This is the huge miners portable camp that we stayed at, as seen from the town viewing platform. As there were few women at camp at the start of the trip, Vanessa and I attracted a little bit of attention. But it was actually not bad, with PLENTY of food, pretty decent accommodation and even pool and ping pong tables and free internet access. Definitely an interesting experience.]
Cycling out to East Woody Beach (Galaru)As well as exploring the gorgeous area we got to join the outreach clinic doctors, nurses and midwives on health clinics to remote communities throughout the peninsula, helping with kids health checks, Aboriginal health worker training and setting up day clinics on carpets on the porches of the community school house.
Jennie, one of the local doctors and our NTCS teacher took us fishing and mud crap hunting with her adopted Aboriginal family. This was complete with damper cooked on a beach fire, and some dancing (apparently we weren't very skilled).At the end of our stay we were lucky enough to be able to attend the 2008 Garma festival by being volunteers in the Miwatj health tent. This was a great cultural experience complete with basket-weaving (i'm still finishing it...), dancing, seminars, art and lots of band-aids and paw paw cream.
http://www.garma.telstra.com/
NT Clinical School at Little Bondi beach
The weddings (and a spot of rock climbing in between)
October was a busy month for weddings, starting with Matt and Pam's wedding in Bendigo.
In between the two weddings Craig met up with Michael (a mate from Adelaide) to do a bit of climbing in his favourite Aussie climbing playground at Mount Arapiles.
To Perth...
Lis insisted we put this one in.She flew to Perth via Alice Springs and we flew right over Uluru! So we've seen it from all angles now!
(if you squint a little you can see it through the clouds just behind the wings)
To help celebrate Cathy and Alex's wedding we flew to Perth - the second last state on my To-do list, and the last on Craig's.
Perth is a really nice modern city overlooking the Swan River
All dolled up and prowling the streets of Perth for Cathy's hen night...
Pre-wedding BBQ at King's Park
Cottlesloe beach - getting to put our feet into the cold Indian Ocean! 
Little Creatures brewery Around Darwin
Darwin city seen from East Point
Nightcliff foreshore from the JettyIf you look in the background of this photo, far in the distance is the big square hospital building. Apparently it is built from plans for a Calgary hospital, complete with snow shields and a heating system that works particularly poorly for the air conditioning required here in Darwin...
BBQ at the Nightcliff foreshore Our backyard is a great place to see green frogs as they invariably come out of their daytime homes in our flower pots to amuse us during backyard BBQ dinners.
They don't look quite as bright green at night under our patio lanterns, but they are still pretty damn cute! And from their increasing noise, are getting excited about the upcoming rain.Tales of South Australian Wines
(the end)
Canadian Thanksgiving seemed like a great occasion to open up the next SA wine, especially the one from Turkey Flats.As usual, while I am trying to shove information into my brain at the
library Craig is working hard preparing some gourmet meals that make sure neither of us will shrivel away...Mmmm... cranberry sauce.
Can't quite remember the occasion for breaking out this Yalumba wine - perhaps there wasn't one, just a night where a good wine seemed appropriate. This one was tasty, though pretty strong.
One day I hinted that what would be nice for a post-study meal was the tomate farcie that my grandmother used to make, and low and behold this is what I came home to.what a brat...
Don't worry, as soon as I finished my exams, it was my turn so that the last wine of the series was eaten with a feast that I cooked for Craig this time.
And that was our year!
Have a great holiday season and see ya next year!
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You're the best Craig!
Nice.
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