Mantra Darwin

Arrived in Darwin yesterday - very hot and sticky and yes......before you ask, it has rained.....very heavily. Staying in an apartment in the hotel so have laundry facilities...yippee! Chilling out for a couple of days before our trip to Kakadu national ...

... , green ants and fruit bats) - Crocosaurus Cove (a croc zoo with massive saltwater crocodiles which grow up to 7m in length!) - Darwin city sights such as the WWII oil tunnels, botanical gardens, Qantas' first air hangar, wildlife such as gorgeous ...

... all blogged up), and we set about packing all of our stuff up and cleaning the van, ready to deposit it later in the day in Darwin, before heading to a 5 star hotel for a bit of R & R and some New Year’s Eve celebrations. Head off on our final ...

... smarter affair at the Bhan Thai on Cullen Bay. The starters were particularly good and the seafood rolls are gorgeous. The last evening was spent in the Monsoon bar with friends. A great few days and would recommend Darwin even at this time of ...

Happy New Year to you all!! Not a lot to do in Darwin on New Years Day, so wander around, have some food and then head back to the hotel to watch the most spectacular sunset I think we've ever seen! ...

... '48. Throw a special party or celebration with a difference - hire out a hotel suite with a view and a balcony overlooking Darwin harbour, organise catering and perhaps even a string quartet to serenade the guests! Living the life of the rich and famous ...

... for lasers must have been a sight to behold, but unfortunately their time was short lived, and they became a fashion reject. Except in Darwin. Jen's grin for much of the evening had been so wide, I thought she had a straw stuck sideways in her mouth, ...

... or catching the bus. The food has an anything goes policy, from endangered animals to bugs. But that is really the countries mantra in general. The buses are the worst or the most interesting depending on your outlook. Expect to share it with live ...

... with Stephan, forcing us to go down the middle instead. Pretty glad things have worked out as they have in all fairness. Mantra for life: Plan nothing, surprises make life more fun. So we headed to Derby, the starting point of the Gibb River Road. ...

... the road gets very high very quickly, offering some really good photo opportunities. It takes us about 25 minutes in the car (the Charles Darwin section in the museum yesterday said that it took Darwin about 5 to 6 hours to walk from Hobart to the summit ...

... were a bit obscured by the moderate cloud-cover near the entrance of the part. To our good fortune, however, as the Charles Darwin road reached its apex we were spoiled with several magnificent views of the entire Andean range. We stopped at the top to ...

... bus load of people coming to the window. This stop is not typically on the agenda, but our awesome guide demonstrated the O.A.T. mantra of flexibility. After getting these drugs most of us were feeling better. We arrived in Quito, Ecuador in the late ...

... , who is the last known tortoise of the species "Pinta Island Tortoise". He's over 100 years old or thereabouts. After the Darwin Centre we headed back into Puerto Ayora, where we also saw a number of birds including Blue Herons and Albatross. The next ...

... group in the Galapagos Islands to the far west of Ecuador. The Galapagos is famous for its wide variety of wildlife and Charles Darwin collected samples from here in 1835 to prove his theory of evolution in On The Origin Of Species. The main examples he ...

... . We'd spoken to a few people and heard that Kakadu was swarming with mosquitoes so we headed to Litchfield following the mantra of our guide book "Litchfield-do, Kaka-don't" - thinking about it, the campervan company was probably right about our sanity ...

... part of our time driving around the island trying to find some of the churches... to the boys dismay... "Not another church!" was a mantra we heard from about the 4th to the 5th one... I think scaring them from attending church for good.   Each ...

... ; 2ème jour de plongées aux alentours de Baltra18 – 3ème jour de plongées aux alentours de Baltra rencontre avec les raies mantra et biens d’autres poissons 19 –visites d’une réserve de tortues et d’un tunnel de lave. ...

... it in the mornings.  Nick and George went bug hunting and found some crickets which they logged and drew in their notebook very 'Darwin' like.  Alex was working on his, well what ever it is that he works on he's left to his own devices!  ...