A backyard sale was set up selling tents and everything the film crew had brought and used while filming. Campbell and I had first pick though and collected a couple of good torches, a sleeping bag, a matress and a couple of chairs. I also donated a few of the not so good but still usable tents and chairs to the international backpackers who were all in Kununurra to pick fruit in order to get a second year Australian visa. If you are in Australia on a working visa and wish to stay more than twelve months you have to undertake three months work in a job and place Aussies wouldn't usually do. Many of them work in Kununurra and from all reports it is hard work but they all say it is worth it to stay in Australia the extra twelve months.
The producer of the film Satellite Boy was so happy with the week or so of work we had done for the film that she told us just before we left she would be putting our names in the credits of the film. It was an unexpected thank you and will be rather exciting if it does happen when the film is released next year.
Campbell had decided while in Kununurra he wanted to visit Mum in Broome for a couple of days where she would be to start a trip down the Western Australia coast. This left me needing to get to Darwin where I was due to fly home from but it was not too much of a hassle getting a lift. The lady who had hired us to work on the film had to drive a Maui campervan back to Darwin to return it to the hire company and she offered me a lift.
This meant the end of the trip for Campbell and I together and I said a quick goodbye, not knowing when I would see him again and climbed aboard the Maui as we started towards Darwin. I have never been in a campervan like it and it was a comfortable ride although on the first stretch of road to Katherine the petrol gauge started to drop rapidly as we were nowhere near a petrol station. Not a very good start to the journey. We decided it was best to pull to a side of the road stop and hope somebody would have a spare jerry can of diesel. Luckily after about ten minutes a well prepared couple of foreigners arrived in a similar looking campervan with a spare share of diesel. We filled up and were back on the road. For the journey everything was paid for by the film company because I was keeping the driver company which made it a really cheap way to get to Darwin.
We stopped the night in Batchelor, just south of Darwin and I slept the night in the Maui while the driver stayed in the hotel. The following morning we drove around Darwin till we found the hire company shop and dropped the Maui back.
I rode the local bus into the centre of Darwin and spotted a YHA hostel and checked in.
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