ZEITGEIST MUDCRAB
Australia's Top End has always been something of a haven for eccentrics and their activities. Perfect example: Darwin's Rocksitters Club, a Saturday evening tradition of nearly five decades' standing to which people go for a beer to watch the weather turn spectacular. The Darwin ice hockey club reckons they're world champs because no other team has ever taken up the challenge to play them.
Darwin's a city with one of the highest percapita aggregations of four-wheel-drive vehicles, and Darwinites particularly enjoy anything to do with cars. In 1983, the city went troppo when a group of mates decided to drive their Toyota Landcruiser across the harbour, under water. The 'cruiser – complete with 60-metre-long snorkel – made it half way before its starter motor flooded and couldn't get going after stalling.
Roll on four decades
