It is COLD - (relatively speaking)

We have a COLD snap..............temperature dropped to 17C last night, and 16C expected tonight. Even colder a few kilometres away from the coast - with one area already this evening at 1030pm below 13C, with 9C or less expected. The maximum today was around 27C., which for Darwin is distinctly cool.....but very pleasant if you are a local.

The air is dry and the near full moon is very bright and clear, as it has been for the past few nights.

Many locals were out in light jumpers this morning...........and heading off for a warming coffee. There will be more sweaters used tomorrow morning, I am sure.

I even decided late this afternoon that it was too cool for swimming training today! So it has to be COOL, for me to miss my swim fix.

Big Moon Rising

Tonight is the biggest moon of the 2008 calendar year.

For a monsoonal climate, and we have had a few near monsoonal showers today, it is overcast and quite cloudy, but still the moon will rise in the east.

And it has come to pass that the clouds have eased, and the moon appeared among the palm leaves ........

Then emerged from behind the leaves........colours are unusual but real. NOT the typical large yellow globe you expect in the tropics, so vivid in the drier months.