Day 80 – Darwin.

Everyone who has stayed in this room seems to be up and out at 8am, I’m not quite sure why as none of them are working in Darwin, clearly I’m missing something! I walked down the high street looking in shops and stuff, I would do more interesting things like go to Kakadu national park for the day but it’s about $200 which is ridiculous plus I spent 3 days looking at Uluru etc and it’ll be pretty similar to that. Everything else to do here is about $30 and I’ve seen crocodiles and other things the last time I was here so I’ve decided to save money and just do the free/cheap things instead. That and treat myself to ice cream of course. Speaking of, for breakfast I went into a café and had a scone with cream and jam for brunch… it was terrible. I don’t really know why I thought it would be as good as home, maybe because the scone looked really good and appealing in the cabinet but I shouldn’t have been fooled!

I made my way down to the lagoon and thought about going into the wave pool but decided against it. Imagine The Pyramids (swimming pool in Portsmouth) mega waves, that’s what it looks like but outside. To make up for my terrible brunch I treated myself to another ice cream from Trampoline.

It all got a bit too much so I cooled off with a drink in The Precinct a pub/bar near the wave pool. I read some more of my book and if you wanted to know I am currently reading ‘Skinny Dip’ by Carl Hiaasen and loving it! I’m already 70% through and I only started it when I arrived in Darwin and will finish it before I leave, tells you how hooked I am!

I went for another lay in the sun before heading back to the hostel and organising my bag so it’s ready for the morning. I chucked out a few tops and I’m still finding it hard to close… WHAT IS THIS?! Basically I blame the Australian Open towel for taking up so much room. That is my problem!