Darwin

A very late evening flight from Denpasar meant that by the time we cleared immigration, quarantine and customs upon arrival in Australia, we didn't get to our hostel until around 5am in the morning, completely exhausted. Darwin was hot with extremely high humidity, and afternoon storms brewing in the distance. It was our first opportunity to sample the delights of fizzy red wine, which is always a very pleasant bonus.
Whilst in Darwin we took a wander down to the redevoped port area with it's artificial beach, outside pool with wave machine plus a trip to the local botanical gardens. However because of that high humidity you dont walk very far before you are completely drenched in your own glow, or sweat if you're a 'bloke'. We also took time to visit the museum and art gallery of which inside there's a good exhibition charting the history of Cyclone Tracy which devestated the town at Christmas in 1974. Darwin was also where we said goodbye to Jaime who decided it was too good an opportunity not to fly home to Melbourne as soon as possible after hitting the shores of Australia.