After a leisurely trip North we made it to Darwin and the Lee Point Caravan Park. We set up in a nice spot under the trees to get as much shade as possible as we will try and get work here and stay for awhile. We decided to look around as much as possible because if we get work that will tie us down a bit.
We did a trip to the famous Mindle Markets to see what they were all about.
We found the Darwin Air museum and had a few pleasant hours there. We had left the girls behind!
There is a lot of World War 2 history here as Darwin was bombed pretty comprehensively by the Japanese. More bombs fell on Darwin than were dropped on Pearl Harbour on the first raid.
There was a lot of artifacts from the war on display,old engines from crashed planes,aircraft parts etc. Very interesting if you like that sort of thing. They also had a B52 bomber in the Hanger, just!
This is the type of aircraft that killed so many trees in Vietnam, when the Americans area bombed the jungle trying to hit the elusive Veit Kong.
On the way back to camp we visited Mitre 11.
This is the Council resource centre. Used to be called a Rubbish dump in my day. Had a good look around but wasn't tempted to bring anything back to camp.
More soon.
Cheers dave and Helen
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