We were flying from Boome to Darwin seen as time wasn't our side. Flying on probably one of the smallest planes we had been on, we made a very edgy landing in Kununnura (WA's most northerly town set in the vast Kimberley region, which is 3 times the size of England!!) to stop and pick some more people up. We waited in the shed that was the airport for about half and hour and were back on the plane heading to Darwin. A less edgier landing and we were in the Northern Territory, our sixth Aussy state so far on this trip.

The weather was beautiful and sunny much like Broomes, except Darwin had the humidity too! It was intense, we must have looked like real Brits as we arrived at our hostel bright red and dripping with sweat.

As we had arrived in the late afternoon, after getting slightly more use to the heat, we decided to head out for a little walk around the town, getting some food along the way. Our first thoughts of Darwin were mixed. The city was much smaller than we thought it would be (a good thing), and I feel it seemed to have a real Australian feel about it. I don't really know what I mean by this but I know that Darwin just seemed to have a completely different feel and atmosphere to any Aussy place we had been. Perhaps it was just the people, because we had heard that the Northern Territorians were a little bit backward compared to the other states. Whatever it was, it was good, and it felt good to be here.

Our first full day was quite action packed. To start off I took us on a bit of a goosechase, as we walked all along the promenade to the wharf to go to the museum. But it turned I had read the map wrong (a rare thing....it was probably the heat) and the museum was at the other end of town. So we had some lunch in the CBD and decided to go to Crocosauraus Cove. Despite the name, it was actually really good and interesting as we learnt quite a bit about crocs, and seeing them proabably as up close as you would want to get to one. After this I was still intent on going to the museum, so I dragged Kirsty along on an hours walk through the botanical gardens to eventually arrive at the museum. Only to not be able to find the entrance for a good 15 minutes.

We did find the entrance and were very pleased too, as it was one of the best little museums we'd been to. We were so engrossed that we were not aware of the time and so asked to leave as it was closing time. It had an excellent part of the museum dedicated to cyclone Tracy, a cyclone that literally devastated much of Darwin on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 1974. To end our busy day we went to one of our highlights of Darwin, the Mindil Beach Sunset Market. An amazing market full of funky stalls and food from around the world, as well live bands and fire twirlers perfoming as the sun sets, creating an beautiful setting.

Our last 4 days in Darwin were spent doing much less. We took it very easy, lazing by the pool most days, playing cards and chatting with a guy we'd befriended from Spain, Sergio. We actually became good friends with Sergio over the following few days and one night he treated us to a real Spanish paella. Which made a change to our usual diet of pasta.

On our last full day in Darwin we experienced our first tropical storm. It was brilliant, the weather changed in a split second from sunshine to pouring rain, which was relentless for the next 2 hours. We paid another little visit to the Mindil markets again that night and watched the sun come down whilst eating our dinner on the beach.

Our next flight was at 4am to Cairns. So after barely any sleep we headed to the airport. With only 2 weeks remaining in Australia, Cairns was to be our last stop before Sydney.