Day 153 April 11th 2007, Evolution - Perth to Darwin, 4,040km

With only a few hours sleep behind us we headed off to Perth Airport early to wave Kirsten off and a few hours later to catch our flight to Darwin. Shelley now seems to have stolen my ability to sleep the entire duration of a flight, waking up 5 mins before we land. I now on the other hand am able to only able to sleep for about 5 mins. The result being Shelley is full of beans whenever we arrive somewhere and I just want to go back to bed.

Through the power of the Internet we managed to book our accommodation in Darwin at Perth airport just before we flew out. This website http://www.wotif.com/ is highly recommend. We managed to find an apartment in Cullen Bay close to the marina, it's one of the buildings on the left in the picture below.


Arriving in Darwin was like arriving back in the Jungle of Peru its both hot and very humid here with temperatures in the 90's. Darwin although quite a small town has played a significant part in Australia's wartime History. It was also through Darwin that the first long distance telegraph cables came through connecting Australia to the rest of the World.

During WWII Darwin was attacked by the same Japanese fleet that bombed Pearl Harbor, although a less significant target than Pearl Harbor, Darwin was a strategic Military base and more bombs were dropped here than on Pearl Harbor.

Highlights: Sweating and drinking lots of water