Blogs from City of Darwin, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 27

Hello All Went to Kakadu National Park for a two day tour. Took ages to get there, and lots of the park are shut because of the flooding. The park is the size of Wales so you can imagine how big it is. thankfully there are less Welsh!! There has been loads of water here and the flooding is vast. Most of the waterfalls including Jim Jim falls are unreachable. We drove past the area where a cyclone hit a few days before. Trees were uprooted everywhere. We watched the jumping crocs on the Adalaide river which was really good. We saw one salt water crocodile named Hannibal who was 5 metres long!! it was huge. I got some good pictures on him. I also held a baby python, a flaming gala and a blue tongue ... read more

Still here in Darwin. Went to Litchfield National Park the other day, it was great. The waterfalls were amazing and we got to swim in two of the sites. One was Buley Rock hole and the other was Florence Falls. We saw the famous Wangi falls which was quite big and saw a baby fresh water croc! Also encountered a wallaby and two rock wallabys. No snakes as of yet. St Patricks day yesterday. Started in the pub at 4 in the afternoon. James drunk loads, and was still standing by the end of it, although we did find him sleeping outside our hostel room. It was a good evening, with lots of guinness. James drunk enough for a free wig and T-shirt. I am sure many pictures will appear on his blog. Went to the ... read more

Hi Guys, We made it to Darwin okay, despite a little turbulence on the plane as we flew through the middle of a good old Territory lightning storm. We're missing you all already, so we've been drowning our sorrows in the bottle since we arrived. We spent Friday night at Discovery, think hot pants and beer guts, i'm sure Tomma can inform you all of just how hip and happenin' Darwins only nightclub is, if you can't tell from the photo. St. Paddy's Day in town was fun, we did a bit of a crawl down Mitchell St, wound up in the Vic in the early hours of this morning being serenaded by the one and only Damien from the Biggest Loser. he's looking pretty slim and sexy, i think Niki has found a replacement boyfriend ... read more

Made it to Australia!! Very exciting. We are staying in a hostel on Cavanaugh street. Its exactly what we were after. All sharing the same room with shower and fridge. Its cheap as chips and we have even bought cereal and milk for lunch to cut costs. Its quite warm, around 32 degrees. Just going to log off to save money, than log on again. Bare with me! Ok im back. We have booked a two day tour to Kakadu National Park for next week which i am really looking forward to. We will be doing lots of hiking which will be cool and swiming in waterfall pools. We booked the tour and got a days tour to Litchfield National Park for free. Its the rainy season at the moment and a lot of the parks ... read more

Well, it's 2am here in Darwin. It's really odd to think that I probably won't be back to Darwin again. At least, not to visit my parents... they're selling up and moving to Victoria later this year. It's been lovely spending time with them the past few weeks. My sister Amanda, her partner Darren, and my nephew Damon (aka 'my favourite boy in the whole wide world') were here over Christmas and New Year, which was fantastic. The last family Christmas in Darwin, as it shall forever be known. My friend Nicole flew up from Adelaide for a few days, and was witness to (and key participant in) my first and last big night out in Darwin. Very sore head the next day. Good night out, though. The time here has been kinda hectic. In between ... read more