Had a really great day recently. Royal Life Saving Society had a group of 30 or so aboriginal children from various communities doing a self awareness, leadership type course, and part of it was to take them on the river in small boats. However the boats had to be registered and the operator licenced, so it meant the operators all had to be from Interstate, as boat licenses are not required in the Northern Territory It took 5 trips to take all the kids out for about an hour per group. They were all well mannered, and with a little prompting from the carers all of them shook our hands and said thanks. Some of the children had never been out of their remote communities before, so were naturally a little apprehensive.