Darwin Australia 13th-16th November 2006

We arrived in Darwin Australia after a flight of only 2 and a half hours and with a time difference of one and a half hours. Our backpackers accommodation has a shared bathroom and is a lot more expensive than what we are used to. We headed straight to the supermarket to stock up on vegemite. We had to prepare our own food and wash up for the first time in five weeks!

We went on the jumping crocodile cruise as recommended by Lee. It was cool, the biggest saltie we saw was 4 metres but they do grow up to 8 metres. They leap right out of the water with all legs showing (when they have all their legs, lots have lost them in fights) It was just before the mating season so we only saw the big males, the females and small males were all hiding!

We held a water python and also saw Kites as shown in the photo. We saw spoonbills, a kingfisher and crimson finches at Frogg Dam River. On the way back we saw our first Wallaby and also drove through a town called Humpty Doo!