good morning and welcome back to darwin northern territory australia today is february the 12th
uh 2022 so i just thought i'd give you a bit of an update uh of how darwin's going at the moment
we're in uh the middle of our monsoon season but uh today we've got some nice uh blue sun
blue skies and sunshine and uh i thought i'd come out for a drive um we're
at the Parap markets because it's saturday morning and uh we'll head into darwin city but um i'm just
going to grab a lime and ginger drink from the fruit shake lady in here at the Parap markets
so i'll just duck in here and then we will continue our journey into the city
absolutely glorious day uh humidity is up so yeah as you can see the markets are very quiet it's
just us locals so uh if you're interstate just looking for a getaway come up for a week or two
there's plenty of room at the moment there's not a lot going on we still have our markets and
it's really nice if you've been here in the dry season at peak tourist season um
okay got my lime and ginger with a dash of honey and ice really refreshing
okay so we'll just head back to the car just on the left here this is uh
one of my favorite laksa places really nice getting the combination in there
all right so back in the car let's head on to darwin city it's only a few minutes
down the road um we'll get out of Parap we'll go through stuart park
now you probably noticed in there people serving uh have to wear a mask
and if you cannot distance 1.5 meters it's a good idea for yourself to wear a mask as well
if you are out on your own walking around or riding your bike no mask required outside
our check-ins are still required because the the covert is spreading rapidly up here in
the northern territory we're getting over a thousand cases per day uh at the moment so um
i think the authorities are just keeping a bit of an eye on it
even though it's spreading far and wide from Darwin down to Alice
and not a great deal of people have ended up in hospital from it but uh that that's the
the fear they think they have to control all right so we're just heading down parap road and uh we
will turn right here onto the stuart highway if you've been up here you will recognize it
i've just edited out the two minute wait for the lights to change
all right so we're just going into stuart park now
it's one of the original residential areas and still quite popular because it is uh right next to
darwin city a lot of the units and housing
housing is a little bit old but there are some newer uh developments in there
there's not a lot on the highway here
a few car yards buff club on the right nice big office works on the left
now being saturday morning not a lot of people come into
darwin city a lot will go out to casuarina to do their but shopping there's a few cars around
we're just going over the daily street bridge now as we enter into darwin city so this road
ceases to be the stewart highway it's now called daley street left there on mcminn
so some of the newer apartment buildings on the right and left there
so we're just going to go left here onto cavanaugh street so you've got mcminn kavanagh smith
mitchell and then the esplanade so it's a fairly simple grid which makes up the darwin city area
it's quite a small area so it's easy to find your way around
those 40k signs because it's a school zone right here but not on the weekends
you've got to be careful though during the week between seven and five in the afternoon
uh it is 40k so just be aware if you come up here a lot of people do get caught with that one
so we've got the big woolies on the right hand side here on the left is the big construction
zone where they're building the new charles darwin uni
it's going to take a couple of years to build
post office on the left so we'll just chuck a lap and i'll come back to the post office
okay we're just going right here onto nucky street
very mild traffic
as i say there's not a lot going on in town there's something happening
i'm not sure if it's at the darwin entertainment center or at the waterfront we've got the wiggles
in town this weekend and they're doing several shows so people have come from far and wide um
take the kids and a lot of people have grown up
with the wiggles so i think that's brought a few more people into town as well
so on the left there is the smith street mall just driving up lucky street here
darwin central hotel on the right
and uh if you're looking for some pretty good food a little place on the right here i can't quite see
it called the non la highly recommend that one directly in front of us is the mitchell center
which has got coals and telstra and such so we're just going to go left on mitchell street here
reasonably busy for a saturday a lot of people like to come into town um and stay at night at
a nice hotel so that's the hilton uh right there so some people might be just doing
their saturday night at the hilton and just have some fun on mitchell street for saturday night
parliament house there directly in front
big building on the left is called the charles darwin center reasonably new building uh build
built by uh the pus pali family and that is their head office as well
okay so we'll just turn left back into cavanaugh street
kevin our hotel on the right there lovely shade structure vines are slowly getting there
all right so that's pretty much it for today just a quick drive through
to show that darwin's still going along quite nicely
a little bit quiet because it is not the tourist season
and it's just us locals getting around doing our business enjoying the sunshine and the humidity
all right so i'm just going to turn right
at this corner here where the post office is so i can check my post office box
so thanks for watching and we will see you in the next video thank you bye
baby