Borroloola

As many of you may know, Nelita's father passed away a week before Christmas.
It was very hard trying to organize a trip to Borroloola that close to Christmas. Plane flights were ridiculously expensive and time was not an easy commodity to work around at this time.

Fun photo before leaving

The only way we were able to get Nelita to the funeral was to take her up and leave her there over Christmas. We wanted to be there for the funeral, but dates were not set, and the wet season made it very hard to plan a date. The Friday before Christmas was the last of the fairly cheap flights.

Dennis flew up with Nelita on the Monday. Drove to Borroloola on Tuesday (1000km), Left on the Wednesday and flew home that night.

Nelita has been in Borroloola over the Christmas break.

We leave on the 8th to pick her up. Our flight will take us to Darwin. We will drive to Borroloola and spend a couple of days there.

While there we will spend some time with the people and talk about how they feel we can best meet their needs with the recordings from GRN.

We will also be talking about getting some people down to Newcastle to do recording work and script work here.

As we do not work with AIM any more, we do not have accommodation at the church house now. Please pray that we can find a suitable  place to stay that does not cost the earth. The cheapest place there is the Savannah Way Inn.  This is around $130 per night.

Housing is hard to find as each house is very crowded, and more in the wet season as people from out bush come in before they are stranded in flood water.