A Darwin Local’s Guide: The 15 Best Things to See + Do in the Top End

February 16, 2022.Reading time 16 minutes.

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When I moved to Darwin, I only ever had the intention of staying for 6, maybe 12 months. I had no idea how hard I would fall for this Top End city, and to be honest, if I hadn’t met and fallen in love with my now fiancée, I honestly may never have left. However, […]

Helicopter Pub Crawling in Glorious Darwin!

December 15, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Living in Darwin had many advantages. Abundant mangoes, incredible storms, a newspaper which only seems to put out croc-related headlines and a generally relaxed vibe. One other such advantage is that it is one of the only places in the world where you can go on a pub crawl… in a chopper! When one of […]

A Top End Staycation at Hideaway Litchfield

October 11, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

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Living in Darwin has many perks. We get cheap and abundant mangoes, hilarious headlines courtesy of the NT news and the most amazing monsoons. We also enjoy being just a short drive from Litchfield – an epic national park which I have visited many times before. Litchfield (or Litchy as it is affectionately dubbed by […]

I Love Darwin: An Ode To My Home In The Tropics

August 7, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

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Darwin. When I moved to you I thought that I would need to endure you. I thought that I’d be lucky to last 6 months in such a new and different environment. I thought that my work would be harder. I thought that the humidity would nearly kill me. I was sure that the six […]

A Little More Darwin

August 18, 2016.Reading time 11 minutes.

I know it must seem like an endless parade of posts about friends coming to visit me in the Top End, so despite me having enough material from another such visit over my birthday to span 3 or 4 entire posts, I have decided to condense it all into one big post – the last one […]

Waterfall Swims at Edith and Florence

August 11, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

One of the perks about moving to a part of the country that many of your friends had never visited is that quite a few of my most favourite friends from Adelaide were all too keen to come up and visit me in the Top End – which just helped to give me even more […]

Splashing Around in the Buley Rockhole

August 8, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

After spending a few hours floating around at Robin Falls, it was time for us to do a little more exploring and time to find another place where we could cool off. Enter Litchfield National Park. After backtracking 25km or so along Stuart Highway, we took the Batchelor turnoff and continued on until we entered […]

Croc Free Waterfall Swims in the NT

August 4, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

The Top End is a truly beautiful part of Australia. Lush wet season forests, stunning waterfalls and incredible national parks all combine to make a part of Australia that is like no other. However, living in the tropics can have downsides. During the wet season, high heat and extreme humidity combine to make the Top End an […]

Exploring Litchfield National Park

March 12, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

After cruising along the beautiful Adelaide River in search of some big crocodilians it was off to Litchfield National Park for some more exploring. First things first though, we had to fill our bellies. On the way to Litchfield there is a small bar/shop at the Banyan Tree Caravan Park. There isn’t anything truly exciting […]

Jumping Crocodiles in Darwin

March 8, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

I made the move to Darwin late November 2015 and was pretty damn excited to explore more of my home country. The Top End of Australia has the lowest population density in the country, and is home to a vast array of stunning landscapes and scenery. From out of this world Uluru and the red […]