G'Day Today has been a much more successful day than yesterday's efforts. As usual it started early and we were speeding down Stuart Highway towards the Adelaide River for our date with the crocs that inhabit the river. It is estimated that about 3000 live in the river systems around Darwin and once on the boat we could see why. They were popping up out of the water all over and this was the one boat we did not want to sink!!!! The skipper assured us that if it...

G'Day Well no lie in this morning, we headed into town to pick up our photos that we had taken while snorkelling and diving at the Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef, nearly all of them came out OK. Then we went to find ourselves a trip to Litchfield National Park and crocodile feeding which we did successfully and will be doing tomorrow. It was so hot again today that we took refuge at the movies for a couple of hours. The big surprise on leaving was that the ...

G'Day Well the bus trip must have really taken it out of us as we slept in till 11am today!!! Once up you can't move fast around here as you end up like a wet sponge in about 2 minutes, the humidity is phenomonal it hits you as soon as you leave a lovely air conditioned building!! We had a slow walk on the Esplanade today and had great views of the Arafura Sea before wondering around the streets of Darwin. We hit the pool mid afternoon to cool down and refresh...

G'Day Folks Well we finally made it to Darwin after 35 hours on 3 different buses across 2 states but here we are in sticky hot Darwin. The whole journey did not pass without a few dramas the first of which was a blowout while cruising on the highway at 130 km/h there was a huge bang and then a 45 minute delay while the driver changed the tyre in 35 degrees!!!! Secondly while on the bus it got dark and Mel did this crazy jump thing which made me laugh but a c...