DARWIN!!!!

So after Katherine stay #1 is Darwin. Here we were very lucky to be staying with some awesome friends from my (Lauren's) Rosny College days! They live about 20mins South of Darwin City.

We had 2 weeks in Darwin so this might take a couple of posts :)

Our 1st darwin experience was the annual Beer can regatta, where locals built boats out of cans and attempted to race them along the shoreline. It is one of the funniest things you will ever see, some of the boast survive, a lot of them don't. There are crashes and sabotage, and only a few make it over the finish line. There is even a kids race where the boats have to be made out of soft drink cans! This is actually the only day of the year you can safely be in these waters, as they are croc infested, and i don't mean the small, freshwater kind, i mean the huge, angry salties! But from early in the morning motor boats & jetskis are on the water scaring them away, & a helicopter flys over every now and then to watch out for the snappy creatures. The water is so warm. According to reports, approx 16000 people showed up to the regatta at various points during the day.

There isn't just boat racing, there are sandcastle comps, kayak races, tug-of-wars etc. It is a whole day of fun!