Tomorrow we wrap up seven days in Darwin. We've spent time lazing by the pools at the park, completing some vehicle and caravan maintenance, as well as enjoying the various tourist sights. Heather has particularly enjoyed catching up on her scrapbook, the boys have loved spending time in the pools with kids from the family next door and Andrew went on a Defence of Darwin tour and visited the East Point Military Museum and the WWII oil storage tunnels.
We've all enjoyed watching (and hearing) the spectacle of Exercise Pitch Black, with military jets from quite a few countries participating. The jets fly quite low overhead at some stage most days and sometimes late into the night - quite spectacular and very loud!
Other highlights have been visiting the waterfront, walking around the CBD and exploring the Mindil Beach Market. We bought curries from the market for tea and then sat on the beach to eat them while watching the sun set over the ocean. Very beautiful!
Today we went on a day trip to Litchfield National Park - What a beautiful place! We particularly enjoyed walking on the Shady Creek walk to Florence Falls, with a swim in the plunge pool under the falls. Lunch sitting on rocks in Shady Creek was pretty hard to handle too (not!). Wangi Falls was next on the agenda; even higher falls and another lovely swim. We are so enjoying the sun!
On the way back to Darwin, we decided to take the unsealed section and call in and visit Berry Springs for our third swim of the day (had to wash off the dust!). NT unsealed roads are something else - the corrugations are so bad, its like 30km of speed humps stacked up next to each other, between sections of sandpit. The only thing to do is drive at 80 - 90 km/h across the top of the corrugations and churn through the sand. It's much easier without the caravan behind!
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