In Darwin we tied the boat up in the duck pond which is a fisheries marina, so we were surrounded by huge rusty old fishing boats and singing fish workers met some really nice fishermen, it’s the place to go down too for fresh fish and prawns in Darwin. All the marinas are surrounded by locks due to the huge 7-8m tides up here, was interesting to see how they all work.
I didn’t realise what a rich history Darwin has had with it involvement with the world war, perhaps it comes from my growing up in a cardboard box with slits for windows. I have found it to be a fairly modern city and was later to learn it’s because in 1974 hurricane Tracey had a couple of rounds in the ring with Darwin and knocked it out. Short arms perhaps ? There is now an official cyclone shelter in Darwin
There are several places to see crocodiles in the area surrounding Darwin, particularly Adelaide river.
I went with Daryl and Laurel to see some big bloody lizards jump a fair whack out of the water for meat on a string, can’t blame them I guess it’s feeding time / fishing but on a grander scale with tourists taking 100’s photos all throughout.
If there is one thing you must do in Darwin its go to the Humpty Doo Hotel, it’s on the return from Adelaide river and is an awesome pub which is typical outback pub in Australia but starting to be more of a tourist stop –still well worth a lunch stop, have the buffalo burger.
Darwin was attacked 64 times during the course of WWII, and a set of oil storage tanks were built on Stokes Hill, if i recall correctly to later be part of an attack. So a set of tanks were created underground for storage but finished near the end of the war and never used during the war.
I didn’t realise what a rich history Darwin has had with it involvement with the world war, perhaps it comes from my growing up in a cardboard box with slits for windows. I have found it to be a fairly modern city and was later to learn it’s because in 1974 hurricane Tracey had a couple of rounds in the ring with Darwin and knocked it out. Short arms perhaps ? There is now an official cyclone shelter in Darwin
There are several places to see crocodiles in the area surrounding Darwin, particularly Adelaide river.
I went with Daryl and Laurel to see some big bloody lizards jump a fair whack out of the water for meat on a string, can’t blame them I guess it’s feeding time / fishing but on a grander scale with tourists taking 100’s photos all throughout.
If there is one thing you must do in Darwin its go to the Humpty Doo Hotel, it’s on the return from Adelaide river and is an awesome pub which is typical outback pub in Australia but starting to be more of a tourist stop –still well worth a lunch stop, have the buffalo burger.
Darwin was attacked 64 times during the course of WWII, and a set of oil storage tanks were built on Stokes Hill, if i recall correctly to later be part of an attack. So a set of tanks were created underground for storage but finished near the end of the war and never used during the war.
Two are open for tourist to wander through and another set is on Navy land and it’s not known what they are used for. (Conspiracy perhaps they store the flotilla of boat people there?)
Off course a trip to Darwin wouldn’t be complete without heading down to Mindil Beach markets to watch the another sunset on the beach with half of Darwin, I’m still not sure that sunsets or sunrises will ever become old. Mostly the markets were filled with locally made arts and crafts and had a mixture of something for everyone, there was a musical group there which made an amazing sound with a didge and a drum set.
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