Sunday 19th September to 25th September 2021
This week we were preparing to move into our house sit.
Sunday was a very quiet day as Jason nursed his foot.
Eva was back at work on Monday. We visited Bunnings and Anaconda. Madeline enjoyed playing in the tents.
On Friday we went to the movies to watch Paw Patrol.
Saturday Jason went on a fishing charter. He had a great full day on the reef. He had some great catches.
While Jason was fishing, Mummy and Madeline moved from the caravan into our house sit.
We were looking after chickens, roosters, ducks, chicks, birds and fish.
We also had geckos in the house, toads outside in the bathroom, possums on the roof and snakes in the garden.
Bees Creek
Bees Creek is an outer rural area of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. It is 33 km southeast of the Darwin central business district.
Bees Creek is mostly rural, with large residential blocks often not served by town sewers or sealed roads.
Settlement of the suburb as well as nearby Virginia began in 1869, after George Goyder surveyed the small area surrounding Virginia. Its name follows that of a stream surveyed by George G. McLachlan of Goyder’s No. 6 Survey Party of 1869, and named for McLachlan’s cadet, Tom Bee (4 July 1850 – 21 November 1919.)
In 1915 a rail siding named Wishart Siding (also known as 22 mile, the distance from the railhead at Darwin) after a contractor who built the first rail jetty at Port Darwin, opened on the North Australia Railway was established at a site approximately 2 km from Bees Creek. The siding served primarily as an accommodation facility for railway maintenance gangs who worked the line south to the town of Adelaide River.
The camp was expanded with additional accommodation buildings between 1946 and 1949, and closed with the rest of the line in 1976.
The entire precinct is now heritage listed for its architectural and historical significance to the line. It is the only facility remaining of its kind along the alignment of the former railway.
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