I have a few days before work starts and after my poor efforts last time as a tourist I need to try a bit harder. So I get up on reasonable time and head to one of the suburbs for the markets on Saturday morning. Weekend morning markets and evening Sunday and Thursday markets are very much a Darwin thing and great for tasting Asian and multicultural cuisines, buying souvenirs and hearing a bit of music. (I know, it's a hard life being a tourist!) Later on that same day I visit the Botanical gardens- all very tropical but then need to make it home for a bit of patriotic Olympic ceremony watching!
Sunday 29th marks 6 months since I arrived in Australia. I spend a bit of time in the morning visiting the Parliament building- a new, fresh, arty-looking building with a lovely terrace overlooking the sea. Not a bad place to be a Politician! The Northern Territory of course isn't quite a state and is separate from the rest of Australia (though how separate I'm not entirely sure)In the evening we made it to the sunset markets at Mindyll beach, watched the sun go down choose some food and absorbed the atmosphere of people gathering, milling and eating.
Work starts then and it's hectic. It would be less hectic without having to figure out an alien computer system, learn new protocols and find everything I need- but it would still be hectic. I'm initially a little shocked by how rough around the edges some of the clients are. I'm still getting used to the idea that a lot of dogs live entirely outside and I spend the best part of a day stitching up a dog attacked by a pig and in multiple pieces almost! But I get to see a Dingo pup, try to fix a Blue-Winged Kookaburra and vaccinate Wallabies! 6 long exhausting days pass and its only the odd once I'm home in time to see the sunset at 6.30 or walk Ben, Susie's dog, newly arrived in Darwin after quarantining in Sydney.
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