Sunday, June 19, 2011

darwin

Staying at Howard Springs, which is about 20 km out of Darwin, however, Palmerston City is only 3 km away with plenty of shops to restock the cupboards, Darwin was bombed in 1942 by the same Japanese force that bombed Pearl Harbour during these bombing attacks which totalled some 64 bombing raids whereby the Japanese dropped over twice as many bombs on Darwin than Pearl Harbour.
Darwin has also been demolished by cyclone Tracey in 1974.
We visited Cullen Bay where we came across Huey doing a cooking demonstration, we tried to get him to cook lunch for us but his schedule wouldn't accommondate it.
Then to Fanny Bay Goal, Aviation museum in which it was amazing to see the B52 which was donated to Darwin by the US Airforce.
We went to the Mindil night markets at Mindil Beach and watched the sunset.
We decided to take a tour instead of driving to Litchfield national park, which included stopping at Florence Falls, Wangi Falls, Tolmer Falls, Magnetic Termite Mounds, which are built in a North/South Direction so that they can benefit by the east/west rising and setting of the sun so the mound stays in a constant temperature.
Aquascene on high tide is a fish sanctuary where numerous species of fish come to shore to be feed by hand.

Mindil Beach

Huey

"Aquascene" feeding fish
     
 Feeding fish

 Feeding Fish
  
B52

Aviation Museum

Fannie Bay Goal

Termite  Mound

Florence Falls

Wangi Falls

Tolmer Falls








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