told you it was a small one coming next

Well...slightly smaller anyway

So Darwin…what can I say about Darwin? First thing is don’t come to Darwin in the wet season it really isn’t a good idea. I have been here for a week and in that week I have only had two days where I have been able to go outside without getting soaking wet, all the other days there has been monsoon rain all day and when I say monsoon rain I really mean it! And it lasts all bloody day! However when it isn’t raining there are some good things to see, the Waterfront is a good place with a few bars and a swimming area, I didn’t even realise that there was the Mall Street until 4 days in where there are some good cafes and restaurants. The rain caused me to miss out on the national parks such as Kakado and Lichfield which was a bit of a shame as I had heard so much about the both of them, so I think if I can I will try and get back here in the dry season. So that’s the boring information bit but what have I actually been doing during my week in Darwin?? Well the first few days I spent in the library as I found out that they have free Wi-Fi which is the word that every backpacker wants to hear, especially because in the hostel it was $2 for half an hour!!! And in the evenings we just chilled out at the hostels bar as there was always some sort of theme going on for the night. On Tuesday night they had a beach party theme so we had a BBQ and competition and a raffle which I won even though I only had the one ticket! Woop, I won a free ticket for 2 adults to get into crocodylus cove, which is a crocodile park, I was happy with that win as I was wondering how I was going to be able to afford to go otherwise. But to be honest I was a little disappointed when I did go there, unless you were to pay more money to do other things there wasn’t really much to do, there were some good things, like you could feed the baby crocs and you got to hold a baby croc, I wanted a photo of it but that cost too much money. If you have the money you could go in the cage of death which is where you get to swim face to face with the big crocodiles (well you’re in a cage but still looked pretty cool) the other cool thing about there is that the crocodile out of Crocodile Dundee now lives there so I saw a famous croc!! Well what’s next…St Patricks Day!!! That was a brilliant day I think it is fair to say that it almost rivals the time I was in Ireland. When I first got to the hostel pub I was on my own this was at about 10.30 in the morning and then when the bar opened and the BBQ breakfast was nearly ready I say another guy on his own so I decided to go bug him. Unfortunately for him he was then stuck with me for the rest of the day! By 12 there was a good group of us happily drinking away, already on our 3^rd or 4^th drink of the day! Then the staff got the face paints out…this proved to be a bad mistake…everyone was getting painted, apart from some of the Irish they didn’t really appreciate it, Haha oh well it’s all good fun.  Think we ended the day at about 1 in the morning so that was a good 14 hours drinking session. Then we started again the next day…well it’s the best way to keep the hangover at bay! Apart from meeting some awesome people in Darwin I haven’t really had a chance to do much else because of the weather which is a bit of a shame but least I can say I say the crocodiles! Now it is just waiting a couple of days before the train adventures.