Day Seventeen - Darwin

we arrived in darwin on a late friday afternoon, headed straight to the bottleshop, then to 'asian noodle' for some takeaway asian noodle, and finally made our way to the coast in the city's north where we plonked ourselves down in the middle of darwin's gorgeous nudist beach, tore off our clothes, and watched the sunset naked drinking red wine and eating vegetable laksa. need i say it? it was glorious.

the wonderful zee and her delicious girlfriend emma put us up for our stay in darwin. they lived in this massive 4.5 bedroom house with 4 other people, 3 kittens, 2 hammocks, a tropical garden surrounding a swimming pool (see photo), and kitchen/dining area straight out of a 70's porn shoot. we loved it - thank you ladies!!!

jasper had to be returned on the saturday, so we woke early to unpack two and a half weeks of adventure and memory from his insides, give him a final scrub, and return him to wicked campers. despite previous bad experiences with hire cars (fuck u avis scumbags!), as soon as we told wicked-darwin that the drunkards in wicked-broome hadn't let us properly list jasper's pre-existing damage, they ticked the 'checked' box and finalised the return of our bond with only the most cursory glance in jasper's direction. thanks goodness.

check out my macho boyfriend: grrrrr!

we met up with emma at the parap market for some smoothie and laksa. there's something asian about darwin's markets: they're bustling and juicy and tropical and open and alive. so many wonderful things about that city! you don't even realise how much you've missed it until you get back there. g and i are putting serious consideration into making it our future (temporary) home. emma and zee lent us their bikes, and we were drawn magnetically back to the nudist beach for a further exploration of our liberty...

...and it was a complete liberation. we had more fun than we thought humanly possible on that little strip of sand: splashing in the jellyfish infested waters, mixing with strange naked people and being even stranger, getting that all-over body tan, and even discovering what else is in the teaches of peaches.

hot diggety check out this romantic shot that zee took of your boys under a palm tree watching the sun set at east point!

the girls took us out to a fancy restaurant on the beach where we had the best seats in the house, watched a partial lunar eclipse over dinner, and even had some fireworks go off half way through the night about 43 centimetres away from my right ear drum.

and of course which self-respecting person could visit darwin without an evening at throb nightclub, where the transexual with australia's largest breast implants put in an appearance to a thunderous lack of applause, a blond drag-queen with perfect breasts, a mischievous smile and legs that never ended had zee and g mesmerised and sliding off their seats with their tongues on the floor, and your gang of 4 dominated and redominated darwin's hottest dancefloor.

what better way to spend our last evening in paradise?!