Life in Darwin

Well this place is different in a good way, the birds are far more noisy, there are huge black cockatoos and large sulphur crested cockatoos and these birds are really noisy, screeching from 4.30am onwards, they sit about in trees all day eating and screeching, another very bizarre thing are the fruit bats, they are huge with wings over 3 feet, (1 Meter) and emerge in the dusk and there are lots of them, i wish i could find the roost, i bet there are a huge number in the roosts just trying to keep cool and snoring and many other things, but someone did tell me they make a huge amount of poop they are like a small dog in size, so the neighbours are not happy when they set up roost in your garden. The trucks on the roads are huge monsters with up to 4 trailers behind,



The city is very well planned and well paid out, non of that crazy Indian or North African developments with houses right onto the roads and factories built inside someones house and a workshop door to a school, all well done and the marina area is extremely nice, The roads signs are also quite funny as this is the remote far north of Australia and when you drive in town you see only 3 towns you can drive to, and Alice Springs is 1495 Km away, so not much after the town of Kathryn then.



I had a quick walk around the area of my new apartment, I haven't been able to sign for it yet as my money isn't in town yet, I hope it doesn't take 6 working days as my wife will have arrived by then and i am not sure wife we can get a hotel in town, it is so full of people, but the place is in the dry season and we can sleep on the beach if needed, but dont tell her that.