Palms City Resort Darwin

... serving of the deluxe mango kind was actually $5.35. If I am going to pay that kind of money for five spoonfuls of some dairy product, those mangos better cause a damn good gastric orgasm going down! And those active yogurt cultures better be doing their thing as advertised on the container.

I am not sure if it was the heat, thirst, crazy prices, or being hungry that was making my head spin so it was time to quickly find something affordable. A tiny ...

... plains. We did a 3 km walk to Home Billabong. The variety of bird life is unbelievable. As it is currently the dry season (June – October) the surrounding vegetation and landscape is very dry except around the billabongs, wetlands and rivers. We stopped by the Warradjan Aboriginal Culture Centre to view the culture and history of the Aboriginal people in Kakadu. Next stop was Nourloungie Rock and Anbangbang billabong walk – again ...

... then came back finally claimed his prize and a na overland telegraph line was established that first communications to the old blighty (England) took 16hrs to go and come back with the answer of "um who's this please" damn don;t u hate that even today u get strange text messages as well and when u think about it when they sent that first message it was a lot of dots and dashes and today 150yrs later the wheel has turned from typing a telegram to phone a friend to typing a text ...

... I did then manage to get a few balls in the air and reasonably straight.  Still pretty rubbish though and I can't get them very far!  Oh well at least the driving range was green this time.

Tomorrow night we are off on a romantic sunset dinner cruise on a 22 metre sailing ketch called Cape Adieu.  Looking forward to that.

30th July

The sunset Harbour Dinner Cruise was fantastic.  We were on the "Cape Adieu" as described above and had a 3 course meal served to us ...

... using the Termites own feces. I sure wouldn't like to live in my own feces.

From the mounds we headed to Wangi falls were we had a picnic lunch, which was bought at the truck stop. Striped the clothing and went for a swim to the falls even though as you are walking down there you read a sign that says beware of crocs. It was so nice to just lie in the plunge pool. I also never noticed how long it's been since I've swimmed as going across the pool ...

... metres et prennent 80 ans a construire. Cette escapade au fond des bois nous a permit de profiter pleinement de la nature tropicale du Northern Territory et de voir toute sorte d’animaux don’t des guanas (gros reptiles), des wallabies (version petite du kangourou), des oiseaux de proie de toute sorte et bien d’autres. Heureusement pour nous, les crocodiles se sont fait discrets!

Apres un arret rafaichissant aux Berry ...

... 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 ...

... under no circumstances, sleeping in that car! We had to take all our stuff out of the car again, in the pitch black, and sort our tent out so that we could sleep in it - tiredness and rain were also very appropriate to that night. The next morning, completely gutted, we went on the lookout for a mechanic. We asked a few guys who were working at the campsite, a potbellied man sitting in his campsite garden who had obviously settled down there, recommended ‘Kirk’ ...

... suur see eeldinosaurusteaegne müstiline olevus on. Muidu on nad suht rahulikud ja paati ründama ei tule. No võib-olla kummipaadi viitsiks nad ümber ajada suure nälja korral. Kroksid söövad ainult 2 kg liha, millest jagub neile tervelt kaheks nädalaks, seetõttu on neil laialt aega (ja lõbu) passida peale oma ohvrile. Tuuritegija rääkis, et sa võid käia ujumas 10 korda ja kroks ei tee midagi, aga 11ks korraks on ta omale tegevusplaani juba täpselt paika pannud (sest sa tuled ju ...