The name of the town of Darwin is difficult to live up to for biologists: the Charles Darwin National Park is chiefly a site of importance for its WWII installations (- surely they could have found a site of primarily biological interest?), the town caters mainly to the bar-loving tourist trade,
and the architecture of the hotel that I stayed at seemed to have been inspired by British prisons from the Victorian era.
The town wasn’t all bad though. The hotel redeemed itself with some wonderful corridor artwork,
the legislative assembly building has some zoology creeping in,
and the sea and the sky conspired to produce a display that could only be found in the tropics:
Lastly, on Oz’s recommendation I visited ‘Aquascene’ – open each day for two hours over high tide for a fishy spectacle. The fish have learnt to come around high tide to be hand fed, and by coincidence I arrived at exactly the right time.
Most of the fish are Diamond scaled mullet,
but who could resist the fishy lips of the Bat fish?
I agree the hotel looks dreadful. But the art work is great as is the legislative assembly building.
ReplyDeleteThe colours in the photo of the sea and sky are stunning.
The feeding of the fish looks fun. Maybe a better way round than finding it on our plates. Maybe not, I love fish. :O)
chp.