DARWIN

Hi all!

After heading back from the Pinnacles to Perth and catching our next flight up north in the early morning we reached DARWIN!!!

Darwin is really really green and it looks like a green oasis even on every site of the freeway! And except of the temperature (it was BOILING HOT) and the humidity (it rained every few hours), Darwin gave a really nice first impression.

I mean, we knew that Darwin is not the most beautiful city in the world - and it really doesn´t offer much - but it has a certain charme and flair.

Checking the Lonely Planet and talking to locals in the airplane we found out that fish feeding (and petting) is a nice experience - so we immediately (after exploring the little city centre a bit) went there to pet fish - for the first time in my life!! I mean: living fish - no dead ones of course!

The thing is: with high tide, certain types of fish come to a little bay in Darwin. And you, grabbing some toast bread, can feed them (they have no teeth and just suck in the bread) and meanwhile pet them. As you can imagine, fish are not used to be pet - but especially the old ones know that nothing happens to them and in my opinion: they are just too greedy!! If they want to get fed, they also have to get toughed!! :-D

It was a very nice experience!!

Also very nice was having dinner at the harbour! After a little shock (because it was not what we expected) Andi and me enjoyed wonderful Thai food :-)

Even though we had to get up very early the next day because the way to Kakadu NP is quite far (around 300km in one direction) and we only had 2 days there, we just couldn´t fall asleep in our "suite" and we had to drink quite a lot of Ouzo to "drink the room pretty" hahahahahahaha [I hope you all know that I am just kidding]. Check out the fotos for our 5*****suite in Darwin! I swear: 1 bed and 1 cupboard was in the room - nothing else!! Not even a board to put your stuff on in the bathroom - well, the floor is good enough as well, true!

Well, I know that is what you would expect in a very cheap hostel, but for only 7$ more, we had our own hut in the middle of a small jungle in the NP!!!! Unbelievable!!! See the Darwin hostel in the darwin-pic-folder and the hut in the Kakadu NP-folder!

Enjoy the day! Hope to see you soon!

Stephy

PS.: On the pic it´s me with a baby-croc in Crocodylus Park in Darwin. I didn´t post much fotos of it because I was really shocked how small the cages were for animals like ocelots and tigers!! Even the crocs were lying on each other due to the small size of the cages - I will send a shocking pic to the Lonely Planet I guess and I hope not many people go there anymore to support this torturing of animals!!