tropical reboot

I’m eating a Tim Tam, it’s pretty good.
I’ve been back in Darwin about 4 days now, slowly getting back into the rhythm of the tropical lifestyle and changed time zone. Mostly recovered but still getting up insanely early. But that’s also partly because around the equator the sun has pretty much only 2 states – set and up. The intermediate dawn business lasts about 10 minutes.

I had this whole plan sorted out in my head whereby I would notice things, and remark on these fantastic differences that I’d never realised and that I’d be very philosophical and wise about it. Essentially it boils down to; it’s not as cheap as I remember, what passes for commercial journalism is worse than I remember and the fashion police need to pay this town a visit. Seriously. Otherwise it’s like I left yesterday.

But what I had forgotten are the lovely delicious smells of just about everything – satays cooking at the morning markets, heavy frangipani flower smells at sunset, the sea, bushfires, small animals rotting in the heat… (just thought I’d throw that it because that’s exactly what nature did while I was whimsically sniffing down at the foreshore during this mornings bike ride).