Sunday, 8 June 2014

Darwin (4 nights)
I write this as Enzo and I are recovering in the shade from a tummy bug, John and Leon have gone off to the Mindil Beach Sunset Markets…..we have extended our stay another night so we can all visit the wave lagoon on the Darwin Waterfront tomorrow as we weren’t up to it today.  Um, if this is winter I am not sure I could stand summer!  There is a pool at the camping ground for cooling off, next to the squash courts (how they can play in this heat I do not know!). 
The central city of Darwin is really compact and there are some high rise apartment buildings (maybe 12 floors max).  But there are not many old buildings left since the Japanese bombings in WWII.  The Darwin Military Museum was worth a visit to learn all about that side of the city’s history.  We are here over the Aussie Queens Birthday Weekend so there are all sorts of things going on such as the Greek festival and we came across the Army firing off some cannons and putting on a free BBQ (Leon took advantage of that!). 
Leon at the Military Museum
As an aside….The drive through bottle stores here crack me up, we visited the ‘Thirsty Camel’ drive through to find several lanes to choose from, one was called the ‘browse lane’, that is for those who aren’t sure what they want yet, the other lanes are those who can place their order as they drive in and then collect the goods from the dude who has run around after them collecting the goods and they make the payment through the car window!  Somehow this feels wrong!
Car spotted from a rally in progress (Priscilla style!) Seeing all the cars took me back to the Undie 500
Heading to Kakadu next but only in the areas where crocodiles have not been spotted of late and they consider the area safe!!

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