Desserts @ "Chat Thai"

Boxing Day random encounters ended with lunch at "Chat Thai".

Backyard Christmas

Partygoers

3 guys & 4 girls

Picnic in the green

Student apartment

120 dumplings

High fire

Diesel burn melts wires and lifting arm collapses.

Sails, parachutes, whatnots

Woolloomooloo

dabljuu dabl-õu dabl-el dabl-õu em dabl-õu el dabl-õu

Night

Garbage day

Purple flowers are from jacaranda trees.

Australian Technology Park

309+ job interview queue

Princess

Outbreak

Macau Festival

7/11 at Starbucks

After hours

Australian Pelican

I met this bird near Fish Market.

Early birds

Not many made it to Ku-ring-gai on Saturday :)

Descent

Yum cha

At "East Ocean" restaurant.

Metropolis

Initially planned four weeks spent, on the road and roadsides, travel companion starting to live in and complain about the world where he alone is making effort and having hardships, landlady texting me about my return date, higher bits of account balance starting to get cleared out — right time to fly back to Sydney from Darwin.

While I was away, almost everyone in the house has (re-)started smoking. Metropolis life.

Goodbye Darwin...

maybe see you again during monsoon season. Photo at newly developed Waterfront Precinct which among other things includes artificial wave pool (for people reasonably afraid of jellyfish and crocs). No surfers there :)

Man from Arnhem Land

Chuck Norris goes to Melaleuca on Mitchell when he wants a quiet night out.

Photogenic friends

Viva la vida

After 4 weeks of faraway places, Darwin is inviting.

Concealed croc

Thermoregulation

Ripples

Man-made cathedral

Watering hole at Daly Waters

Clueless

At Alice Springs' Anzac Hill

Poached Egg Daisies

Polycalymma stuartii — common in the sand plains after rain.

Sound of the outback

Red Ochre Grill

Barramundi, kangaroo, crocodile and camel+date sausages. Kangaroo stake was not cooked correctly (heavily burned outside). Photo by Charles Edward Hurst.

Sunset hop

Most famous rock in the world

Mount Conner

On a way to Yulara. Still not the most famous rock in the world.

Opal gouging

Hygienic galahs

Mutonia

Broken mechanisms are assembling to create new life forms in the desert.

Tree-coloured bird

Flinders Ranges

Supposedly the hardest hike in Wilpena Pound is to the top of Mount Ohlssen Bagge. Photo (C) Charles Edward Hurst.

Outback graves

Fisherman's morning

Motion

Motion. Blurring the nearby and close. Since beginning of time.