Mindili Market

On Thursdays and Sundays there is a market on in the evening at mindili beach, its good to get there for the sunset and not to eat beforehand as there was loads of amazing food stalls around. There were people selling all sorts on stalls and live music as well with a guy playing 4 didgeridoos and his mate banging on the drums. People come down and have BBQ's and is the main attraction on these days. A few of us went down from the hostel to see what was happening.

Crocasaurous (don't know how its spelt)

In the middle of the day, after getting up, sunbathing by the pool and having a swim it can get quite hot so we thought we would go say hello to the crocs. We saw the croc from the crocodile dundee film, got to hold a croc, read lots of signs about crocs and see a lot of croc stuff.

Plus we saw the main attraction of swimming in a glass cage suspended into the croc pool. The idea was for people to be under water with the crocsas they swam past but all that we saw was the croc having a snooze on the bank every time people went in.

12 months ago this wasn't here

The convention centre and lagoon in Darwin are very new and building is still been completed (they were concreting the BBQ's in place when we were there last). We have spent many a day down here but the nights are good for getting some good shots.

Eating cake and searching for penguins

We went down to St Kilda one evening to find some penguins coming into shore but on the way we found loads of cake shops on the street so me and sam had some good cake time.

We then walked down to the sea and got some shots of the harbour and a water rat but it was freezing cold and all wanted to see the penguins.

In the end we thought they were probably cold as well and had probably flown away to warmer climates. But when we go back to the hostel we heard they only come in January and February.

The echuca tower

The echuca tower is the largest building in Australia so we went upto the observation floor at the top. The lift up there took is at 9 m/s and your ears were popping before you knew it. There were some great views up there.

Sir is that a professional camera?

This is what a security guard asked me last weekend when we were at the MCG watching Richmond play Esserdon play AFL, great game with Richmond winning by 5 points.

This is what 2 months of robinvale does to you (beard)