We spent 6 nights in Darwin and today moved on to Banyan Tree Caravan Park situated between Batchelor and Litchfield National Park. We’ve booked for 4 nights.
Darwin was hot and very humid. It seems the weather was perfect for a month then changed the day we arrived. It certainly hit me hard. I’ve been getting quite used to the hot weather but the added humidity was too much for me. I just went from air-conditioned caravan, to car, to shopping centre, then did that all in reverse and finally got in the pool.
We’ve been to Darwin before (6 years ago) so had done most things, but we went again to Mindil market for dinner on the night we arrived, took a walk around the city centre (not much has changed there in 6 years), went to the aviation museum to see their impressive B52 and other displays, took a 1.8k walk around the Howard Springs reserve, got a hair cut and did quite a bit of shopping. We also caught up with Ron and Dell (who we met at Lake Argyle) for lunch at StarCity Casino on Monday. It was a good cheap buffet lunch if you are ever in Darwin looking for a meal.
We did take the boat off and go fishing on Elizabeth River (off Darwin Harbour). As we were launching the boat at 7am, a local chatting to me said “I hope you bought insect repellant or the sand flies will eat you alive”. We had and applied it often, but they found spots up our shorts where we hadn’t applied it, or just bit us through the repellant. Russell was the worse of the two of us with literally hundreds of bites. The sand flies and the fact we didn’t get a fish bite put us off going out again.
I had planned to meet another of my recipe club’s members, but the heat and humidity put me off doing that too.
I was pleased to leave the park we stayed in this morning-one neighbour had a whingy kid who started early and didn’t let up and the other had two bored whingy bull terriers who didn’t let up either the whole time they were at work! The actual park was nice-small and well shaded with a nice little pool, but I couldn’t have stayed there for much longer.
We drove into Batchelor and had a (very quick) look around. There’s a Big4 in town, but I didn’t like the look of it so we came out here. The couple beside us stayed one night in the Big4 then came out here as the pool in there was full of mossie larvae, the place lacked shade, and they didn’t think the park was worth $11 more a night compared to this. This place has lovely big trees, big sites and the pool is sparkling clean so we are here for at least 4 nights (or until mail from Warrnambool and Perth arrives).
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