Drone view of tide draining off the Top End flats

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The Top End Barra Tides Cheat Sheet

Every Darwin tide for 2027, colour-coded so you can see the good ones coming.

Tides decide more about a Top End barra trip than gear ever will. This is the planner I use to line up the best sessions of the year — so you rock up when the fish are on, not when they're not.

What's on the sheet

  • Every Darwin high and low for 2027 — times and heights, month by month
  • Each tide cycle colour-coded: neap, building and waning
  • Moon phases marked, so you can see the big tides coming weeks out

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Years of reading these tides, boiled down to something you can keep in the boat.

— Watty, Barefoot Fishing Safaris