The dry is a time when it doesn't rain. When I mean doesn't rain it DOES NOT RAIN for 5 months.
So needless to say in Darwin that's when everything happens. Darwin is the Florida of Australia. It's hard to think that Australia has cold parts but it does. Because of that many people come north to escape the cold and to be tourists.
Only now it is evident that tourism has died off in a big way.
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| Looking cool on the main strip (Mitchell St.) in the CBD of Darwin. |
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| Down and staying down, well I'm married so what do you expect. Oh and mince is on special this week. |
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| Here's L doing her Vanna impersonation showing her sand dollars. I think we have a couple of thousand dollars worth laying around the house. |
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| I have no idea what this is. It is a camera malfunction but L took and it looks cool so we're sharing it. |
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| The dry has lots of fires. Some set by the government (controlled burn), some spontaneous, some set by bad people |
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| I keep saying the things we have to do for a great sunset. |
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| As you can see it's mostly the dry brush that burns the trees always survive. |
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| I had a 30cents per litre petrol/gas coupon. So I saved $12+ dollars on $70. I was pretty happy. |
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| I was complaining to a Vietnamese friend who runs a stall at the vegetable market that there is no good Vietnamese spring rolls in Darwin. She said her mother makes good ones and offered us some meat. So 3kgs of meat they gave us. Will filled the freezer and made up a big batch. |
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| For fun we'll drive 45 min to see the bird show at the territory wildlife park. On that trip we also picked up a few native freshwater fish from a local Dam. |
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| We staked out a place on the beach. Of course there was no one around for quite a distance. |
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| Checked out L's friends business Jamaican Delight. |
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| Always trying to avoid the sun. This is a trip to the poor man's Coles (grocery store). It's not in a poor area it's just no one goes there. |
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| Went to a friends wedding on the foreshore of the ocean. It was a nice wedding. |
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| After the wedding we had soup at our favourite Chinese soup place in the Smith St. Mall in down-town Darwin. |
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| The after that we went to Government House this is where the Territories representative to the Queen lives. It only opens once a year. |
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| This was our turtle that we got to watch at the turtle release. Ours came in 2nd last. She made it to the ocean with a little bit of ranger help. |
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| You can see how small she was. A footstep in the sand was a challenge for this little one to navigate. |
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| Going towards the water. |
