Darwin - Lake Bennett

Leaving the cool, green of Adelaide for the more tropical desert-like Top End. Darwin should be in the 30's even though it is Winter. In fact it seems to be very popular right now judging by how difficult it is to get a hotel room, probably because the heat and humidity is pretty much unbearable at any other time of the year. Staying at the Lake Bennett Wilderness resort for our first couple of days in Darwin about 90km South of Darwin and pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It is funny to drive on the Stuart Highway and see signs Alice Springs - 1500km away following just this one road, and Adelaide another 1000km further than that. Also driving it was the first time we saw limits higher than the UK with 140km/h on a single track road, further down the road there are no speed limits. Also see some giant trucks pulling up to three large trailers behind them called Road Trains, they can take some time to overtake even at 140km/h! We have a lovely cabin on the side of a lovely lake. We asked about crocadiles in the lake and we were told not to worry about it, only the occasional freshwater crocs near the sunken forest end of the lake, but you may see lots of snakes while you are walking around! Great!

Ate crocadile and emu for dinner, very tasty. Enjoyed a nice sunset on our balcony, we'll try out the spa on the balcony tomorrow! Attached a photo of the view from the balcony, you can just see the sunken forest in the corner.