Author: angela7marino
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Kakadu National Park: Waterfalls
The amount of waterfalls that you can find in the outback is a bit confusing. When I think of the outback it is rocks, brush, and endless sky. The next two days in this national park gave me towering cliff sides, deep and lush ravines, crystal clear pools teaming with fish, and spiders. Needless to…
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Kakadu National Park: Billabongs & Rock Art
I had arrived in Darwin only 5 days before my 32nd birthday. Alone in a state I had never been to I thought, ok how can I avoid having a birthday alone which could lead to a pity party. “Angela you were in the top end of Australia! An incredibly beautiful place full of mystery…
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Bush Doof
You might think based on my photos that all I did in Australia was swim. You would not be totally wrong there. Darwin was a small exception. Considering every piece of this beautiful green blue water is likely to house infinite crocodiles I starting looking for alternative ways to entertain myself. The entertainment in Darwin…
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Goodbye Outback, Hello Darwin
Before I arrived in Darwin I had one more stop on my schedule: Berry Springs. All these hot springs in the Northern Territory have the worst names from colonizers. The local name for it is Laniyuk. I drove in at 9am to a surprisingly full parking lot. I short walk through a beautiful park takes…
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Northern Territory: Litchfield National Park
The road that leads north to Darwin is one highway called the 1. This road wraps around the country so you can take it from Perth to Broome to Darwin to Cairns and all the way down to the southern more populous cities. It makes for easy driving and the speed limit is 130km per…
my feet don't want to go to sleep 