The Great Outdoors

One of the joys of being in Australia; the Great Outdoors. The ability to just pack up and go camping for the weekend. There's nothing like sleeping under a blanket of stars, waking up to the scent of fresh morning air and having bread toasted over a wood fire . Here's one of the trips where I went Kakadu National Park.

Darwin only has 2 seasons. The Wet and the Dry. The wet starts from around Novemeber to March whereby the temperature starts to rise to the low-mid 30's and humidity is at an all time high. As the name suggests, the season comes with wet tropical downpours with freakish thunderstorms (not a good time to visit unless you are one of those camera fanatics who love to capture lighting strikes). I must say, even though coming from Singapore, where lightning is a common occurance that the 'lightning' show is pretty amazing. Maybe its because of the lack of high rise that you see the full extent of its beauty here.
The Dry on the other hand (April to Oct) is characterised by cool 'winter' night in the teens and daytime temp of 20's with low humidity. Perfect weather for camping.

Our campsite for the first night.


Rocky, Joyce and me.

The group .
Yellow water billabong.

And here's why you dun go swimming in a billabong (notice the croc? I was told its a good 3m and not to stick your head out of the boat cos they can JUMP)