Monday Darwin

I don’t know what Brian has been doing to his clothes, but two pairs of shorts and his swimmers have started to fall apart. It’s still hot, hot, hot so I dragged him along to the air conditioned mall – his favourite thing in the world – to get some more clothes. This sounds simple enough but can you believe it, they have WINTER clothes in. It’s HOT here, why do they need winter clothes? We finally found some shorts in Kmart and Lowes had 1 pair of swimmers left. Luckily they were in his size. On the way back to the van park we passed a Rivers store and stopped to buy Brian a new pair of thongs. Once again the last pair in his size. I don’t think he has ever shopped successfully for so much at once. I took pity on him and we went back to the van for a rest.

This evening we were booked on a dinner cruise of Darwin Harbour. I think the boat used to be a pearl lugger or something similar. We were lucky enough to be seated upstairs under the bimini with 7 others and the foredeck must have had 20 odd people seated there. We cruised around the foreshore as the sun was setting eating seafood, steak and salads and sipping champagne. What a hard life, but someone has to do it. There has been quite a bit of burning off, so the sun setting through the smoke haze sent the sky a brilliant red reflecting off the water. You really just don’t get sick of the sunsets here. Every night is different. We cruised around for about 3 hours and it was an incredibly peaceful and relaxing way to spend an evening. Food was really good too.