I am finally up to date!!! Darwin. A small city, tourists and backpackers everywhere. Slow pace, no fuss - "Christopher if you can't find your other thong, don't worry about it, no one else has got shoes on in the main city shopping district". Hey we love this place! The boys loved the junk souvenir shops, but being a good Aussie I check labels - it has to be Australian made. Honestly, one of the shops we were in, I could have sworn we were in Hong Kong! I purchased a piece of aboriginal artwork, by a local, Reggie Sultan, which I am so pleased with. The buskers at the Mindil Markets were exceptional - Didge Man Mark, we bought one of his cds, 4 didgeridoos backed with drums - the place just went off! (photo with Helen, she just appeared, kissed and cuddled us to death). Mick the Whip man sold us a whip, the kids are crackalackin now!! They showed off their skills when we went back to the markets a 2nd time. Now, we could not leave without a didgeridoo from Jack. Lovely guy, so enthusiastic, let us trial each and every didgeridoo. The biggest windbag of our tribe was Riley. Jack was equally impressed. Thomas is getting a really good sound now, the rest of us - dying cows. We'll have it mastered by the time we get home. Did I mention the weather here is very HOT. Average 36 degrees - winter. We've been to a large FREE water park like wet and wild and a wave pool, as it's just too hot to do much else. The museum is brilliant, the botanical gardens are awesome and all the surrounding oceans are so beautiful ... and hot! Darwin is green and tropical, easy living, but if this is winter, imagine summer!!!
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