Feeding Crocs, Swimming with Sharks and Chasing Abo's - it all happens Downunder!!
January 25th 2007 As we landed in Darwin the first thing we noticed about Australia is the size, the country is unbelievably big. Nature illustrated this to us, as in the North there was flooding while bush fires raged in the South but as our luck goes we missed both (5th natural disaster we have just missed in 4 months!)
Darwin is called the 'Gateway to Asia' and the 'Gateway to the Northern territory' - that pre
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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 
