HELLO DARWIN

Nitmiluk is the national park just outside Katherine. Nitmiluk (pronounced nit-me-look) means 'place of cicadas' — in local language,...

Ken went fishing* in Darwin Harbour with Dave the friendly skipper and a group of other rookie fishos. Note that someone with a fishing...

We met a croc named Nifty on the Adelaide River, about 100 km south of Darwin. Nifty is an alpha male saltie, who weighs about 800 kg and...

Okay, I know this is a terrible way to headline one of the most beautiful parts of the Territory, but it's better than 'Leechfield',...

I remember my first visit to Darwin in early 2003. 'Where is the swimming beach?' I asked the taxi driver on my way from the airport to...

I've been charmed by the character trees in Darwin. The tamarind on the corner of Mitchell and Knuckey Streets gave the name to the park...

(See what I did there?) Cullen Bay is about 2 km to the west of the CBD. The heart of Cullen Bay is the marina. On one side of the marina...

Yesterday, Friday 19 February, was the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin. The city takes this event seriously, with a military...

Darwin's electric scooters are orange, ubiquitous and widely used. They're like a little symbol of Darwin's joys: the casual tropical...

For military history tragics like me, Darwin is spectacularly interesting in that it is the only Australian city to have been bombed by a...

To say Coober Pedy is unique, does not do it justice at all. You may or may not know that the Stuart Highway’s (A87) southernmost point...

Did I mention that it’s been wet? In the odd break between showers / downpours, we’re figuring out the layout of the city. Like Sydney,...

Pleased to say that Ken and his friend Garry had an uneventful journey north. Uneventful in the sense that they didn’t have a breakdown...

'I never knew there were so many shades of blue and grey' (Ken, looking out from our balcony). It's been wet since we arrived. Not...