Day 150: Darwin - Litchfield

We set off bright and early for Litchfield National Park, a small park 130km south west of Darwin. It is pretty much four waterfalls with delicious plunge pools and if I remember rightly, no crocs!

Our plan is to stay for two nights and as our drive was only just over an hour, so on arrival we had time to start on our itinerary.

On the way to our camp site at Wangi Falls we visited Tolmer Falls. I really needed the empty my bladder, desperately, so when we arrived I trotted off in search of the public toilets, only to find they were pit toilets. Any urges I had quickly disappeared when I opened the lid and peered into a black abyss. I wasn't taking any chances.

Tolmer Falls was OK, we did the short walk to it, had a look past all the other tourists and took the long walk back to the car. It is the start of the school holidays in the Northern Territory and its really packed here and full of kids...

Emelie

Day 148: Sydney - Darwin

A frantic last dash around Sydney before Rob dropped us off at the airport.

Oh well, back to the roof tent.

We loved Sydney...

Emelie

Day 143: Darwin - Sydney

We caught the 1:30AM Qantas red eye to Sydney and arrived really refreshed with our red eyes hanging out of our head around 6AM. We were not sure if we would make it as Sydney had "cyclonic" weather and it was touch and go that the flight may be cancelled.

Upon arrival we hoped into a cab which buzzed us across the city in the wind and rain to Darling Point which would be our home for the next 5 days. We hadn't seen this much traffic since leaving London.

We're staying with friends of Oly's family (he knows more people in Australia than I do!) and lucky for us they have a spare apartment we can use while we are here. We are in heaven.

Resisting sleep we set off into the morning like true tourists... I just know this is going to be fab!

Em

Day 141: Howard Springs - Darwin

Darwin is quite small, and we haven't had a good look at it yet. Our first priority when we arrived was (apart from the yellow light bulb) to get the flat tyre replaced. We spent a good hour waiting at the only place that we could find to do Cooper tyres.

We had and early lunch at Buzz Cafe in Cullen Bay and chuckled to ourselves when a guy from another table opened a fake door to reveal a painting of a person sitting on the toilet, he got a bit of a fright. Also, according to Oly, in the men's toilet (the real ones) the urinal is a one way mirror so you can see everyone in the restaurant while you are urinating. I guess you could even aim for someone's drink...

Will have to go back and get some pictures!

We are staying overnight at a friend of Oly's family as tomorrow night (actually 1:30AM on Wednesday) we are once again jetting off... this time to the big smoke.

Emelie

Did I mention it is Darwins DRY season and it won't rain for another 3 months. Well you guessed it, we brought the rain with us...