After the flight debacle from Bali, our first Australian state turns out to be Western Australia, where we spent the sum total of 5 hours in Perth airport waiting for a connecting flight. Then it's off to Northern Territory and after 12 hours in Darwin, Nic wants to be back in WA!! Darwin was once a burgeoning town with a gold rush, now it's highlight is that David Gulpilil lives there (you know, the Aboriginal from Walkabout, Crocodile Dundee and Baz Lurmann's epic Australia) and a bookshop owner is keen to point him out as he walks past the window. More interesting is Kakadu National Park. An area of outstanding wetlands, rainforests and escarpments. It is filled with wildlife, most notably crocodiles and mosquitos. Our first wildlife sightings, however, are wallabies, 3 of them - all
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