I think I saw some fish kissing today
So, for the last couple of days I have been in the sticky and hot NT (Northern Territory) capital of Darwin. Here I have been staying with Suzanne and Gerry. Suzanne is the daughter of my mums pen pal, Jeanne Marie. They have been wonderful hosts to me, and even offered to take me to the airport at 4am tomorrow morning!
Yesterday I went to Crocadylus Cove, a kind of reptile house with lots of crocs, fish and turtles. Here I am holding a black headed python, we made friends. In the evening we went and ate some fish and chips on the beach [Que beach picture...]
Crocodiles are often spotted at the beach, alongside box jellyfish, so its safe to say I have stayed out of the water whilst I have been here...didn't fancy losing any limbs.
One big touristy thing to do here is to go and feed the fish at 'Aquascene', where heaps of fish turn up daily to get their meals, which consists of bread for most of them and meat for the catfish. Some of the fish are massive and were swimming all over my ankles and jumping in the air to get the bread. Here is a batfish and a mik fish, looking very much to me like they were trying to sneak a quick kiss, but I caught them...
And this is me attempting to feed them...
I have decided that my new favourite animal is the 'Archer fish', it is quite small, but in order to catch its prey, it spits a jet of water in to the air to hit whatever it's aiming at, like a fly or some kind of bug, then it falls to the water and they snap it up. It's pretty impressive to see!Tomorrow I head off to Cairns (well, technically it's tomorrow, but it's more like tonight, 4am), so although my stay in Darwin has been short, it has been fun, oh, and hot.
I am not sure I have mentioned yet Australias love for 'signs', I find them rather entertaining, here are a few I have seen over the last couple of days...
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