Coconut Grove Holiday Apartments Darwin

... 5 USA Kittyhawks. The oil storage tunnels were started after the bombing wiped out the above ground oil storage tanks and were not completed until after the war finished. Consequently they were never used. Eleven were planned but only 5 were built. Only tunnels 5 & 6 are open to the public, the others the Navy will not disclose any details on, nor allow any entry. Hmmmm. The highlight of the day for Kirstyn ...

... the relax mode really started to kick in. The afternoons were spent having a swim in the pool at the camp sites. Also the flynet we bought is not necessary anymore instead the DEET was more useful here as the flies were replaced by mozzies. For an even more relaxing time we went to Nitmiluk National park a.k.a Katherine Gorge. Here the chlorine pools of the campgrounds were exchanged for the natural rock pools of Edith Falls, some ...

... the rain so we felt lucky. Went back to the resort, then went back to Uluru again for the sunset - was sunny by this point! LITERALLY HAD THE BEST NIGHT EVER. We've all said this was the best night of our lives. We had so much fun. The rock was beautiful and we all had an awesome time. We all got quite drunk as it was champagne sunset (that we'd paid extra for)and oh my god we got our money's worth of champagne. They filled our glasses up all night. On the way back to the ...

... We then went to go to Aquascene which is a fish feeding tourist attraction which when we got there wouldn't let Jeremy stand near the water while the boys fed fish without him paying and wanted to charge him $11 to do it plus $7.50 each for the kids seemed a bit excessive and a lot more than was advertised on their website so we apologized to the boys and left without doing it. It's ridiculous ...

... north and would get thro' 3 towels a day! The humidity here is very uncomfortable and so we shall leave to go south from tomorrow. The area is very nice especially with all the tropical shrubs and plants but it's not really meant for human habitation, especially ones from Northern Europe. We shall visit Kakadu or Lichfield national park on our way south, thereafter its a straight 1000 miles down to Alice Springs and then Ayers rock. Watch this space

... got soaked. That night we camped near the north coast at Point Stuart. The next day we visited a couple of the aboriginal rock art sights, at Ubirr and Nourlangie. At Ubirr we walked to the top of the escarpment and have a lovely view overlooking the plains of Kakadu National Park. While we were walking around Nourlangie Rock Art Site we spotted a Black Wallaroo, apparently we were very luckly as they are only ...

... hundreds of kilometres of corrugated dirtrtacks - just an evil setup of road terrain but the faster we went the less we felt it... made fun for turning suddenly to avoid the gorges themselves! Another highlight was a sleepy little outback town called Wyndham. Would never have gone there if we didn't bump into the other couple. Turned out to be a treat - amazing views from the lookout post and a crocodile farm we turned up at ending with our own private tour and ...

... I sat next to an interesting fellow on the flight. He was a long-time resident of Queensland who was traveling on his way to Singapore. We talked politics and environmental issues for most of the flight. We landed in Darwin at about 3:00 pm and I sailed right through customs this time around. I caught a taxie to the Crowne Plaza (hey, I'm moving up). I got a nice room on the 17th floor with a view of Darwin Harbor off in the ...

... all probability will be the finest steak I ever had. You get the steak raw with spuds and veg down the side. The steak, however, is sitting on top of a piece of granite that has been pressure heated in the oven to 400°C. You turn the steak once and then you carve and cook your meat til whatever way you like it. Small slivers, large chunks, bloody to well done. (Even David couldn't complain although one of the forks had a hair on it so he probably would have!!). The hotel was really ...