Territory Day

Yesterday, July 1st was 'Territory Day' a day in honor of Northern Territory Australia and what a day it was! Only a year ago or so we were the only place in Oz to have 'open' speeds on our roads, meaning that if you needed to drive 1000km journey you could do what ever speed you thought fit- 80kms, 110kms, 180kms per hour to get there. Now we are just the same as every other state in fact worse we have to stick to 100kms per hour even in rural areas and 130km speed limit. We know have dermerit points too erhh.The Top End is such a different place it deserves to be treated differently.. the speed limits suck and they haven't statistically helped anyone. Fireworks night woohoo -we had the usual crazy cracker night thats still a very territory thing, one day a year anyone can sell fireworks to the public and for one night a year till 11pm you can pretend to be a mad "Pyrotechnician"! Every year hundreds of dogs are lost, people blow off their fingers and 100's of bush fires start but hey cool to look at! We never buy any, we don't have too all our neighbours put on a show that can be seen and heard from miles away. It's a very strange experience and probably not unlike living in a warzone for an evening. Every year some call for them to be banned... It was a good day for our family one we will remember forever, man-ing sprinklers in case of a bush fire and keeping our terrified blue heeler safe -its always an adventure living in the Territory that is what I love about it! Happy Territory Day! Crazy buggers!!!