DARWIN FOR WINTER!~~~~~Part 1

We arrived in Darwin & booked into our caravan park!

WOW!

This place is fantastic, it  has 3 pools,
the main one has a
Poolside Bar & Bistro!

Now this is a little bit fancy!

We didn't know how long we would stay here for so we did the usual 2 night book in!

We chose the premium sites which have an en suite!

We thought we would shout our selves to a bit of luxury for a couple of nights!!! 

Trouble is though, you share it with one other couple or family.
Really for $48.00 per night i want my own en suite!!!

Anyway tomorrow we will go for a drive around

Darwin & check out some other parks & we will also

 start investigating the work scene!...

YUCKO!

Up bright & early & off we went to check out our new neighbourhood!

Wow!~~~ Darwin is really quite small!

We checked out a few caravan parks & decided we definitely are in the

best one & the price is not to bad after all!

On the job scene

 I put my Resume in @ the local nursing home &  just about every shop in the

two major shopping centres here!

Mark also spoke to a few builders around the area!

Now, i know he will not have a problem as everyone we speak to

 tells us how much building work is going on in the suburb

near where we happen to be staying!

Me on the other hand, is not feeling very confident!

 It is reminding me of back at 

Townsville.

 There i found it impossible to find work,

 mainly because of the location where we were staying & not having
a car & when i did get an interview close by 
they wanted me to commit for a year!

Oh NO!....I don't think so!!!!

We will just have to wait & see what the next couple of weeks brings! 

We have decided that if i do have trouble,

 then we will buy a little bomb car for about $1,000
then when we move on we will sell it!

Too Easy!

Boy! oh Boy!

The weather in the top end is incredible!

It is unbelievable how we were freezing back in

Alice Springs & had the air con on warm, now not even a week later & we are roasting up here with the air con on cold!!

Strange how our small little Australia has such variants in temperatures!!!

We are not complaining this is  

So Good!!!!

Well we  moved from our premium site & went over with
all the other poor people!

Ha ha ha ha!!!

 The price across the road dropped down to $38.00 per night!
We picked the best site!

Funny it also reminds me of Townsville with its own little private back yard!

The only down fall of our little tropical paradise 

THE

MOZZIES MIDGIES

&

POSSUMS!!

The midgies (sand flies) & mozzies are shocking!!

 The mozzies up here are quite big & have a stick like straight back,

boy, do they pack a punch when they bite!

Mark spoke to someone recently & they were telling him

 that a girl died from a mozzie bite from here!

Apparently she was visiting

The Northern Territory on holiday, 

& when she returned home she fell very ill & died!

The Dr's identified the killer as a

Northern Territory
Mosquito!!
That is a worry!!!

Now....To those bloody little hard to see pain in the bum sand flies!

Those things are a night mare!

 I cannot understand how something not visible to the eye

(except when they fly around in a bunch in the light of the sun)

even have a have a head let alone teeth that KILLLLLL!!!

So with.....

 Areogard, Bushman's, Citronella Candle, Citronella Bamboo Torches and

Mozzie Coils guarding our little home, we now can sit out side in comfort!

   

Possums you may be wondering?

Well......

The first night we were here i heard them in the tree above us.

Now

Sharon being Sharon decides to feed them,

Awh!.... Thinking, oh how cute, before long i will have them eating out of my hand???

Mark already warning me not to do it, but of course

 i don't listen & do what i want!

So inside i went & cut up an apple for them!

I can hear Husband yelling in the back ground.....Don't give them my Pink Lady Apples!!!

Oops Sorry!.....Too late!

The next night i did the same thing, but by the 3rd day,

i thought this is not good (i should of listened to my intelligent Husband!)

 what if they start running all over our awning, they could rip it to shreds!!!

So i stopped feeding them!
Then the little buggar's started to wee all over our floor!

I suppose it was there way of telling me to feed them!!

I would move if i were you my Husband!!!

Look out!!!!

It has been about a week now since i stopped feeding them & so far so good!

They have stopped the wee business & have left us alone!

Mmmmmm.....Well I won't be doing that again!!!

We decided to do a bit of sight seeing last week end! 

We went to the famous Mindil Markets

This place is famous for the

Sunsets over Mindil Beach which is back drop for the market!

We got there about 4.30 pm browsed around, bought a couple of things.

Well i did ...Namely a skirt & some of this u beaut face exfoliate, which really is only rock salt with some smelly oils in it, but it felt so good i had to have it! 

Time for some dinner & again we meandered our way around the many food stalls looking for something yummy, we chose some chinese & this place looked like the best of a bad lot!
It was so awful & worse

still
 it kept reminding us of this

 all night long!!!

 Mindil Markets

Mindil Beach

We left there & drove our queasy bodies around to

East Point to view the sunset!

Just Beautiful!!

Now as you know by now, i am just so fascinated by Crocs & i cant wait to

see one in the wild....From a distance that is or better still from the safety of the truck!!

Next Morning we went to

Crocodylus Park for the day.

Wow!

What a fun day!

 Mark & I both fed a Crocodile, using the meat on the stick trick!

We also held one!!!

 I do not know how i did it??...

One lady kept saying to me go on you know you want to do it!

I said...

 No i don't want to at all, i am quite happy watching everyone else & even happier not touching it!!

Until

I thought, oh don't be such a sook Sharon & think of the photo i will have
of my bravery to show the grand children!

 So after a few attempts ....I did it!!!! 

Ewwie!.....It felt so cold with extra soft Skin!!!

I don't know what she is carrying on about??

Baby Croc Eyes! 

Their museum was so interesting!!!

Oh baby you are big!

I think this one wants us!!!

Look closely

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Our little Tat-Tar Lizard

Sunning Himself on this Massive

Croc's tail!

This is a great base for lot's & lot's of sight seeing!

We are so looking forward to our time here!

You just can't beat this

Fantastic

Warm Winter Weather!

It got down to 25 the other evening & i had to put on a cardigan!

I think i am acclimatised already!!

Till next time

Cheers from us! 

Enjoy!