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Port Douglas aspects Following a resounding win in the footy (go the Blues!), we headed north to Port Douglas. We were fortunate to snag a great spot in the centrally located caravan park, which sits across the road from the beach and surf club.  The weather in the tropics is unsurprisingly mild during winter, and for this reason it attracts its fair share of affluent holidaymakers from Sydney and Melbourne. You notice this immediately with the absence of friendly faces and pleasantries.  Don’t talk to me or look at me thank you very much!   The extended holiday season also means it’s a hub for backpackers chasing work and warmth. Stay with me here. x + y = z  (Tourists + Backpackers = Drinking and Socialising). z = Profits. Competition for a share of z = Happy hour. Lots of them, and for most of each afternoon and evening. Never appreciated the value of algebra until now did you? So we extended our stay from 3 to 6 days, enjoying afternoons in the surf club whilst the

I can assure you this travelling gig is hard work, its not all beers and beaches every day!  Anyway, we had a 10-day holiday when we got to Darwin. It’s 2.5 hours to Bali and costs peanuts to get there, so hard not to really! Before the flight we checked the Crocasaurus Cove in the city. As the name suggests, it’s home to a number of very large salt-water crocs. With a reptile park, fish feeding (massive Barra), plus opportunities to feed the beasts, its highly entertaining for the kids and Lewis got to hold a snake and lizard - bonus points!! So you’d think we’d be refreshed after 10 days in a luxury Villa. That’s likely to be the case unless you’d booked the red eye home with Jetstar like we did. Lets just say we were wrecked when we touched down!  We stayed another 3 nights in Darwin, mostly relaxing with friends before they concluded their own Aussie adventure. We then set off for Kakadu.  Now you cant complain about winter in the NT! With the exception of the

With the onset of National Park Fatigue following our Gibb River Road adventures, we headed for the comfort of Lake Argyle resort a few hundred clicks downstream from Kununurra. 'Resort' is probably a stretch, but it did have a nice infinity pool overlooking the lake and a cafe/restaurant. Lake Argyle is an incredible feat of human engineering, created from the damming of the Ord River back in 1971. The construction of a 335m-earth wall made shape for a dam equivalent in size to 20 Sydney Harbours that stretches over 100km corner-to-corner. It’s jaw dropping to witness the size and scale of this body of fresh water. We chose the ‘Kimberley Durack’ as vessel for our site seeing, on board the ‘must do’ sunset tour. It’s an awesome, albeit pricey way to see the region, rounded out with a swim, booze and nibbles aboard our pool noodles on the lake. We’ve found comfort extracting additional value from tours having kids whose age can fluctuate depending on the free kids age