Just thought we would update before we leave Darwin tomorrow. We have had a brilliant day on the Adelaide River which is a tidal river brimming with wildlife and yet really peaceful - we probably only saw three other boats all day. There were just 9 of us in the group and they all had a really good sense of humour, so Ray played to the crowd as you can imagine. The crocs were huge and came right up to the boat for meat rations. Fortunately we weren't the bait ...

Hello from Darwin - population not listed so they must have lost count or they got lost in the cyclone. When we arrived in the suburbs we realised we had not seen a traffic light for 3 weeks - really strange and good job we remembered to stop. Have been into town on the bus. Cheap but rather a lot of locals on board and the perfume in the air was not so good!! Darwin is newly built after cyclone Tracey in 1974. They seem to dwell on WWII and the cyclone as the ...