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RE: Where on Wednesday thirty one: Mindil Beach with Faith...And crocs
Wow, that does look an awesome place. I love anywhere a sunset can be seen. I didn't realise where Darwin was until I saw your map in the comments. Yuuuuge distance!
Yeah, it's a top spot, we call it the Top End here in Aus.
It's a long way from my place though, all the way down in Adelaide, but worth the trip.
I think it's difficult for people to understand the concept of how big Australia is really. A little perspective like that image helps.
They have legit beer there too, those Aussies don't mess around up there. Get some great Northern into you and you won't look back!
I love it there, hoping to go back within a couple years. Great history too, my Darwin bombings posts are about...Umm...Darwin...Believe it or not. Lol
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Yeah, I totally didn't get it when you said tropical until I saw that map and it was right at the top. I hadn't ever seen anything at the top before but of course there is!
I'm heading to Cairns in the middle of next year, one of my brothers and his wife live there. T-dog lived there for a long while also. Very tropical and the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Bloody beautiful.
Four days drive, 10 hours a day! Adelaide to Cairns. 3403km
(There is a shorter, more direct route, but there is bloody nothing on the way. It's via Bourke and is very remote. I'd use it, but it's not really the go for tourists.)
South to North UK...1314km
Kind of puts it into perspective huh?
It totally does!!
Worse yet, little Scotland is only about 400 odd K I think. It's pretty tiny! I think the North of Aus might be my new place to aspire to!
I like to understand distances, it's an OCD thing I think. I also need to understand where the points of a compass are in a new city. (My wife thinks I'm weird - I am only partly sure I am. Lol.)
Hey, if you get your Scottish Ass to the NT I'll come up there for a Great Northern with ya.
There was a TV commercial here, about tourists going to the NT. (Northern Territory). The catch-phrase was CUin theNT - I'm serious.
It didn't last long.
https://www.traveller.com.au/cu-in-the-nt-offensive-tourism-slogan-banned-in-darwin-h1cfa5
Hahaha, I can imagine some folk taking it a bit too seriously!
I am like that with cities. I always feel a pressing need to know which way is North!!
Goddamn it! We're bloody twins! Lol.
I just told Faith, she rolled her eyes and said, "another weirdo." 🤣
She was just joking, well, in your case anyway, she knows I'm a stone cold weirdo so doesn't pull any punches.
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