Qantas (for Mar. 11)
I have been naming the blog titles for the place we stopped and spent the night. Tonight we will spend it on a Qantas flight from Darwin to Sydney.
Last night I was blogging and photo editing (187 pictures) from 7:30 to 11:30 and again from 8 to 11 this morning. I finished just in time to check out and we headed for the internet café. We had 10 days to post with 45 pictures, banking and credit card info to download, and email to download and reply to, so it took until nearly 2 PM. We then headed back to the hotel to put the laptop bag into storage with the others and returned to the mall to pick up a few items for a late lunch.
From lunch we hit a souvenir store to finish up and then toured the parts of the downtown and Esplanade that we hadn’t yet seen. We finished with a visit to a fish feeding ritual that has become a Darwin ritual. Some guy started it in the 1950s because he liked fish like some people like birds. It has since grown into a full blown tourist attraction at afternoon high tide. Tourists throw bread in the water and the fish scramble for it. In its purist form, you are supposed to wade into the water on a ramp and feed them by hand, but the wild scrambles are more exciting. The main fish species are Diamond Skinned Mullet (about 5-6 pounds average), Catfish (3-4 pounds), and Milkfish (about 30 pounds). Although the Milkfish look the coolest (the silver ones), they are bottom feeders and apparently are bony and not very good eating.
We wandered around for a while longer, returning to the hotel before 8 to bail out the laptop, have a complimentary beer, and blog our day so far. The airport shuttle will be picking us up at 10:45 for departure at midnight.
Last night I was blogging and photo editing (187 pictures) from 7:30 to 11:30 and again from 8 to 11 this morning. I finished just in time to check out and we headed for the internet café. We had 10 days to post with 45 pictures, banking and credit card info to download, and email to download and reply to, so it took until nearly 2 PM. We then headed back to the hotel to put the laptop bag into storage with the others and returned to the mall to pick up a few items for a late lunch.
From lunch we hit a souvenir store to finish up and then toured the parts of the downtown and Esplanade that we hadn’t yet seen. We finished with a visit to a fish feeding ritual that has become a Darwin ritual. Some guy started it in the 1950s because he liked fish like some people like birds. It has since grown into a full blown tourist attraction at afternoon high tide. Tourists throw bread in the water and the fish scramble for it. In its purist form, you are supposed to wade into the water on a ramp and feed them by hand, but the wild scrambles are more exciting. The main fish species are Diamond Skinned Mullet (about 5-6 pounds average), Catfish (3-4 pounds), and Milkfish (about 30 pounds). Although the Milkfish look the coolest (the silver ones), they are bottom feeders and apparently are bony and not very good eating.We wandered around for a while longer, returning to the hotel before 8 to bail out the laptop, have a complimentary beer, and blog our day so far. The airport shuttle will be picking us up at 10:45 for departure at midnight.
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