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Awesome face  
   

Awesome face

This has nothing to do with the subject of this blog but I love this guy's face. His facial features are beautiful and very representative of how most of the Aboriginal people here look. I took the picture from the cover of a book in the Darwin Museum.
No shoes, No shirt, No service

January 6th 2012
No shoes, no shirt, no service. Those words mean very different things here in Darwin. No shoes: it is extremely common to see people walking around barefoot. At the gas station, at the grocery store, at the restaurant, wherever. I would say about one in five people are barefoot. At first I thought maybe a lot of people couldn't afford shoes, and while that might explain why [ ... read more
Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Darwin

Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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