23rd June Sydney

 Kms today 4(walking to the shops for a coffee)

As I was drinking my coffee at the Elanora shops I read that the NT had closed its border to all people in Greater Sydney which includes us both.  Alan was off sailing that day and on the way home his WA border permit was cancelled because the WA border was closed to anyone in the whole of NSW. I escaped that because my home address was in Victoria.  I started to get very nervous and made plans to leave Sydney as Barbara Shaw had advised.  Alan still didn't want to change his plan as he wanted to get his second Astra-Zeneca Covid jab before he left.

Just when we thought that we had the Covid borders issues sorted it all fell apart.  I am leaving tomorrow for Port Macquarrie to stay with my cousin Helen so should be safe from any Queensland border closures but Alan couldn't be persuaded to come with me and will take his chances and leave on Saturday the 26th.  We'll both enter Queensland on the 1st July and hopefully be free to travel to Mt Isa at least.  

Then we are in the lap of the Gods.  I might be OK to enter NT as I will have been out of Greater Sydney for 15 days.  Alan will be out for 13 days.  That could mean I could go up to Darwin and meet Alan at Litchfield NP. Then we would see where WA is at.

If it seems unlikely we will be able to enter WA we would return south and maybe go round to WA the other direction.  With all this to-ing and fro-ing we should easily clock up the 16000 Kms originally planned!

My sister Barbara came over that evening for dinner and that proved a vital delay to my leaving Sydney.

It changed just before midnight!