A full day tour of the Tiwi Islands makes for quite an interesting day.
In other news...
I just need to write this out. It's Tuesday evening. I'm depressed right now. For the first time on the trip I'm homesick. It's been six months.
It's not even a 'real' homesick. It's more of a 'weary' homesick, and almost an 'I'm ready to go home and get on with things'. Part of it is that I am having a problem remembering things.
We're seeing so much it's hard to remember it all. Every day is at least twelve hours of completely new experiences, sometimes it's all day. I find it hard to remember and sort out what I did two days ago without the camera, much less what I did at any point last week. I want to believe that I can remember, but I often can't, especially when the pictures I took two weeks ago are developed. "Is that a picture near Innamincka, or a picture near Coober Pedy, twelve hours drive away?", I ask myself.
I've had an OK time since Cape York. Not quite a really good time, but fairly good. Problem is, I've been living about two days in the future: "oh, when we get to Mt Isa/Alice Springs/Darwin it'll be so much better". I think a good amount of it is not having a camera along--maybe the camera makes me stop and think how to look at things that are right around me. The film camera does an adequate job, but it's not all that fun because every time I take a picture it's 50 cents gone, plus the hassle of dealing with the negatives and prints. I feel sad that I can't sort out what the good stuff we've seen is from the OK stuff by looking at the handful of pictures from that day.
I think I don't want to leave for the Kimberly without a digital camera.
I'm also feeling isolated. Chris is here, but everyone and everything else is far away. Hours of flying by air, days driving. It's just a bit rough, even in a big populated city like Darwin where we speak the language, we don't quite connect with anyone. Must think some mor e about this, and figure out why I feel this way.
Weird Wildlife Sighting
Nothing much, except the first banksia in weeks--a Banksia dentata on Bathurst Island. That was kinda neat.