Blogs from City of Darwin, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 23

2 countries, 9 airplanes, 1 rental car, 1 helicopter, 5 hotels, 1 BIG (luxury) bus, and many adventures...but who is counting! We arrived in Darwin today (Thursday for us - Wednesday for you). We are staying at the Crown Plaza on the 20th floor. Great views of the ocean...coastal town...beautiful! Warm - 85 or so...not quite as hot as Ayers Rock but a bit more humid. The area reminds me of Florida. Tyler spent time in the pool - seems to love the water. Tomorrow (Friday) we are picked up @ 6:15 am for our 3 day camping trip. We won't be taking the computer with us...don't think we will have internet capabilities. The trip sounds like fun: Day 1 Darwin to Mary River (waterfalls of Litchfield National Park, birds and crocodiles for our river cruise); ... read more

29th February 2008 We have decided to have rest day and so we didn't get up until 7.00 clock. We finished the diary for 28th feb and went to have some breakfast at a nice cafe we found last night. I finished off the photos for the log and we both decided to get our hair cut. Bob went off to load the blog and we met up after we were shorn. We have booked in to the Darwin Central for our last two nights in Darwin as it is much more central than our present hotel and was reccomended by Em. We couldn't get in there for our first two nights as it was booked out. There must have been something on for those nights. While we were waiting to check in we walked around ... read more

It's my second day in Darwin and I'm hiding inside to get away from the amazing heat and stickyness of the weather. After my post yesterday I went into town and found that the city centre isn't very pretty. There are three main streets and a few air conditioned shopping malls (bliss!) but not much to see unless you head right out to the harbour. Darwin was an important location for the fighting during World War II and there are lots of memorials to this and military museums around the city, but they're all nearer to the sea than I managed to venture yesterday. Despite my good intentions to have a proper look around, it's so immensely humid that it's just not possible to stay outside and walk around for very long! The people here are ... read more

After a late flight I arrived in humid Darwin and caught the Airport Shuttle Bus to Frogs-Hollow Backpackers. Upon arrival a friendly guy from Amsterdam had a big chat to me about his travels through the countries that I am about to visit. I made my way to my dorm and was worried I would wake up those in there. I need not have worried, as the dorm was alive with the chatter of 8 friendly Indians who are up here to work for a month before heading back to university in Melbourne. We talked well into the morning before I finally crashed into bed after being awake for nearly 24 hours (had had an early start because I still had to pick up my Chinese Visa for the trip - on the day of departure ... read more

Arrived in Darwin just after midnight, this was due to a last minute change in the flight times. We were supposed to arrive at about 6.30am.... Our accommodation wasn't available till 8.30am. So we had to hang around the airport for 8 hours - Oh joy, no sleep this night!!! Thank goodness our rooms were ready when we finally arrived... Needless to say, we fell into bed and were asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillow. Much later..... After having checked out the well equiped kitchen, we went to the super market. A 10 minutes walk...... It took us 30 minutes in the blistering heat. Weren't we pleased to get there!!!! But now we had to do the walk back!!! Finally, we made it back. Retired to our (air con) room with a box ... read more