grab a cask, head down the local park at around 6.30pm and meet the locals

There's two things to do, well three I guess in/around Darwin....

• drink
• fish
• look at wilderness

stalk poprocks96

the markets!

where's darwin?

my dad had a heart attack in Darwin. that was pretty exciting

well, i think i could handle all of those activities.
and i do like goon...

go for a swim in the beach

i dare ya

oh, why can't you swim?

If you brave the clubs on Friday night you will usually see tits, flashing is a Darwinian institution.

i shot a girl the other day who told me girls were making 10,000 bucks in two weeks for doing topless barmaid work up there, go do that.

the museum is surprisingly good, the 'cyclone experience' section is amazing

K: is that a little bit embellished? surely.

i went for a swim at Gunn Beach back in 1994.

There's a few nice local parks.

Night markets are good.

apparently they got paid 3000 in wages and then made a further 7000 in tips and doing shows. This girl is a seasoned professional though and i doubt she would lie, but she does do that for a living so i would imagine that her name itself would be a selling point.

my boobs probably aren't that conducive to tipping.
plus i'm a guy.

also, should i bring all my wife-beater singlets?

can you swim along the coast elsewhere though?

i got very drunk and trashed a hotel room....you could do that

we went for about 10 days, stayed with old friends, smoked lots of pot and drove around town.
played cards.

ladyh, i will definately do that.

anyone go on any adventures (to the nat parks)?

gawd I love this place... but I need to remember to STAY HYDRATED! Nearly fainting at 5pm is not coolll

I'm here for a few days off in the middle of a tour. We went and had noodles tonight and thought that it must have been a town full of people dressing like it was 1999 and being generally awful. And then we walked down to the park and found some nice hippies with swags painted all pretty like and realised that the cool people live ''out in the suburbs''. In short, there's nice people in Darwin, they're just not easy to see.

The End.

PS. We're going to see Perko do Man In Black tomorrow, it was like, $100+ in Melbourne.. It's only $45 here. Bargain!

the nice people are in Festival Park (where the swags were) and happy yess (next door to that) at the moment outoftheaircrash. Avoid Mitchell St after dark at all costs.

Oh yeah? We stepped in there for a minute last night and it was pretty deserted.. Apparently it gets going after 11.30? What you working on redlips?

Sneak into the bar on top of melaleuchas hostel...3 swimming pools and cheapest beers in Darwin on the roof top.....dont forget to go to TOT either (tits out teusday)

yeah, happy yess is a post 11:30pm type place. All the interesting (in a good way) people in Darwin seem to come out of their hidey holes and hang there.

I'm working on this...

Has happy yess moved into its new premises yet?

yup.

I'm heading up there for 2 weeks in July. Thanks for all the info, redlips and scuz! I haven't been there in 20 years so I'm really looking forward to it. Mr Lilo will be busy at work lighting fires but I plan to spend two weeks by the pool with a beer next to me.

dowp, just before the festival!

oh well, its dry season, will be things to do, go to the wave pool, and eat awesome Asian food.

Mr Lilo will be there for 6 weeks so it doesn't really matter when I go.. when is the festival?

Apparently the best laksa IN THE WORLD is to be found at the night market!

Last time I went to the night market I ate too much fairy floss and threw up.

http://www.darwinfestival.org.au/news/2012-festival-dates-announced

9-26 august.

think locals say the best laksa is at the saturday morning fresh food market at parap.

Hmm, I guess there's nothing for it but to try them all. I might miss the festival, though - the experiment will be over by then, I think. Damn. Hopefully there'll be stuff on anyway!

Two weeks in July is guaranteed perfect weather Lilo. I'm jealous as I don't live there anymore. I second the motion that Parap market laksa is the shiz. I also love to order a Pina Colada from the juice joint at the Parap market - no rum in it - but frickin delicious.

Check out Happy Yess upcoming events.

Shame you miss the festival as it's ace.

I could possibly be there for the festival - it really depends how long the work stuff takes. The plan now is to meet in Darwin towards the end of the experiment and spend a week or so there, and then once work is finished head off somewhere else before we go home. I'm thinking Broome or the Atherton Tablelands, somewhere as far away from a Tasmanian winter as possible, anyway!

Are you a regular at the Howard Springs tavern on a Wednesday night, scuz?

Not sure that I ever even stepped foot in the Howard Springs tavern Lilo. What takes place there on a Wednesday night? Makes me think of Pee Wee Herman's Big adventure and the story of ''Large Marge'' driving her truck.

I'm road tripping up to Darwin next week. Never been before am very excited.

are you there feb 19th? 70th anniversary of the bombing of darwin, will be serious business.

Nah heading up slowly going thru Alice. won't get to Darwin till march 1.