Darwin

After a short flight from Cairns to Darwin we tried to accomodate to the tropical heat by slowing down. On our free day we visited the Indo-Pacific marine - an Aquarium that is more a living experiment than an aquarium - they have pools where they didn't change the water and didn't feed the fish in the last 30 years! The main pool is 15 years old (without feeding and cleaning) and it is amazingly clean, colourful and so full of live! Really worth a visit.
The guy who took us around was a marine biologist from Rostock, germany and he directly invited us to a game of poker lateron. That was big fun as well even though Christoph and me were out of money rather quickly... However, it was worth the fun.

The day after that we left for the first part of our tour - three days Kakadu national park.
We were really lucky as our tourguide Yvonne had studied something like environmental ecology or at least something with environment and nature and she had aboriginal friends herself so her knowledge about nature, geology and aboriginal history was immense.
The nature in Kakadu is great and even better is the place Ubirr where you can see old paintings from the Aborigines from some at least 5000 years ago... Amazing... Even more, because these paintings are not only art, but just as well a part of history and it shows, how they taught their children to behave, what to do and what not to do...