Crocs, beers + sunset picnics in the Tiwi Islands!

March 23, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

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The Tiwi Islands are a collection of eleven islands located about 80km north of Darwin. Home to only around 2500 inhabitants and spanning 8,320 square kilometres, these are some of the most sparsely inhabited islands in Australia. A few years back, local croc wrangler Matt Wright opened a small retreat on one of the islands, […]

Crocs, Choppers, Airboats and Glamping: An Amazing Weekend at the Top End Safari Camp

March 16, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

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Life in tropical Darwin can be dissected into two major seasons – the wet and the dry. The wet is characterised by intense humidity and monsoonal rain and the dry by balmy nights and stunningly warm winters. However, there is also a season that lies on the cusp of these two seasons. The build up […]

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 […]

Well. It’s been a while… Here’s what I’ve been up to since Covid-19 happened.

September 28, 2021.Reading time 43 minutes.

Well. This is by far the longest time I’ve ever gone between posts. I just… lost my motivation. 2020 started out as a normal year for me, but when my life rapidly changed and so many new restrictions were imposed, the life that I had spent so long creating just seemed to fall apart. Now, […]

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 […]

Becoming Croc Bait at Bitter Springs

August 15, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

After spending the night in Katherine and having a seriously good sleep in, we set off to visit nearby Elsey National Park and go for a little swim in the beautiful Bitter Springs. When I say that Bitter Springs is ‘nearby’ Katherine – be warned that this is an Aussie’s version of ‘nearby’ and in […]

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 […]