Our Northern Territory Roadtrip - Darwin

The roadtrip: 

To complete 4200km around the Northern Territory in 12 days

 

Flying over the great salt lakes in Australia

Darwin

Since we hadn’t spent enough time in aeroplanes we decided that a 4 hour flight to Darwin to start our roadtrip of the Northern Territory would be a good idea. The flight was fantastic, only 4 hours (there is something a little wrong when you say only 4 hours, you can cross Europe in 4 hours). It was the rude shock of the heat (32-34^oC) and humidity (90%) of Darwin that was a little difficult for us to cope with ;-p We explored Darwin over 2 days, checking out the military museum, the aviation museum, the city museum and feeding the fish. We learnt that Darwin has faced many trying times from bombings in WWII to devastating tropical cyclones.

Beautiful tropical waters of Darwin

Royal Australian Air Force insignia

Lots of birds kept us company whilst we ate lunch at the
Darwin museum

Fish feeding at high tide in the lovely warm tropical waters of Darwin’s Doctors Gully was fantastic fun except when they mistook our pasty white (or hairy) legs as bread and had a little nibble. We saw milkfish, mullet, catfish, bream, batfish and barramundi. We picked up our trusty hire car (nicely upgraded to a pretend 4WD, a Toyota Rav4, thank-you very much) and set off on our adventure.

Feeding the fish

Typical soccer mum car ... just missing the 'my family' stickers