Either today wasn’t as oppressive heat-wise, or I am finally starting to acclimatise. The car still said it was 34 degrees, but there was an almost pleasant breeze and possibly the humidity was below 50% for some of the day 🙂

Today we all did our own thing. Jase and Sue were booked on a fishing tour. Sue caught a little shark and was particularly glad that she missed hooking the 3+ metre shark the guy next to her on the boat snagged. They had a fun and successful day and will be dining on their spoils tomorrow.

Karen and Kieran spent some time at the war museum, which had a lot of info on Cyclone Tracey as well. They spent the afternoon enjoying themselves at a water park.

Bob and I decided to head out exploring the coastline to the west of Darwin. We have really enjoyed seeing the ocean again after more than 5 weeks inland. First stop was Lee Point. The water continues to be so inviting, but no one swims…

We then stumbled across Darwin Surf Club, which importantly (for Bob) made coffee. We enjoyed sitting here and watching the water for quite a while. We did find ourselves asking the question ‘why is there a surf club’? Our observations were that there were no waves (this could of course be a wild approximation based on a severely lacking dataset), and people can’t go in the water….unless they net the beach to allow people to surf?

Next stop was the Dripstone Cliffs. We looked at these from above as the sand was soft and I was looking after Bob’s knee…

Our final stop was at Nightcliff jetty. More of the inviting water that we can’t touch…

We then headed back to the Darwin Aviation Museum. We spent far longer here than we anticipated. Heaps of great information, displays, and I got to see some planes that my family have a history of flying. The museum has the only remaining B52 bomber in the Southern Hemisphere which was gifted by the US in 1990.

Finally, we all met back up this evening for a lovely dinner on the Stokes Hill jetty that Jase and Sue organised. Seafood (and other stuff) buffet. We all talked about how impressed we’ve been with Darwin (heat excluded) and that we could easily spend more time here in the future. We left with full bellies and headed back to camp ready to pack in the morning and move on to Litchfield.