Darwin Photo Gallery
I’m back in Sydney after a couple of weeks in Darwin for work. It was an awesome time to be there, as the “wet season” hasn’t arrived yet. However, there were a couple of days of high humidity combined with high temperatures. On two separate days, I arrived at work with a slightly damp shirt.
When I wasn’t at work, I got to experience a little bit of the Darwin life-style. Obviously not the same as living there, and obviously not the same as being a complete tourist. There were, however, quite a few things which made me smile. Here’s some of them.
The Otherwise by Matthew Van Roden
Statement by Tarzan JungleQueen and Matthew Van Roden
Aphid Invasion by Tarzan JungleQueen
Wallaby Lunch
Top End Tasting Plate
Darwin Drag Queen
Showtime at Throb
Drag King – Captain Carlos, who I actually know when she’s not in drag. She’s moved to Melbourne, but often revisits Darwin for work.
“Would you live there?”, my friend Sue asked me over dinner tonight. “Nah… cyclones”.
James, if you’re in Sydney, and in ultimo? my LA client , steve chiotakis, drive host from kcrw in santa monica, is visiting glover show right now…go say hi???? Xx Vg
Will do.
He was here last Thursday, when I was in Darwin.
Darwin feeds us lies. We were there midwinter, 30 every day and so humid. So out of character, locals told us. I think they lied Nevertheless, we liked our short holiday there. Now my memory fails me, but there was a gay bar there in a train carriage. It had closed by the time we visited but was the carriage still there or had the apartment development on the site began already? 2005 was quite a while ago. I think the bar Throb was operating when we were there. Such a shame that the thriving gay area at Cullen Bay has died, but then Melbourne’s gay metre, Commercial Road, and Sydney’s gay mile, Oxford Street, is not doing too well either. Times have changed. I have enjoyed your Darwin posts.
I remember the restaurant in the train carriage. Had the worst pool table in history – deep incline.