What a fabulous free museum in Darwin! We only had a couple of hours to spend at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory but it was such a treat to be able to visit. A talk on Cyclone Tracy had started just minutes before we got there so the first thing we did was pop in there for a listen. The cyclone hit on Christmas Eve 1974. The talk was being given by a man who had … Read More
A must in Darwin is to visit the sunset market at Mindil Beach. It’s held twice a week but everyone told us the Thursday night market was the one to attend. It’s so popular that it can be difficult to find parking so we opted to park at the [huge] casino next door and walk over. The market is right next to the beach so everyone gathers on the beach to watch the sunset and then hits the market to … Read More
After our tour of the oil tunnels we walked up to the nearby Survivors’ Lookout. This is where survivors of the 1942 bombing of Darwin gathered to survey the damage in the harbour. The view of the Darwin harbour is mostly obscured by trees now. After Japan’s entry into the war Darwin began evacuating citizens, by the time of the bombing most of the women, children, aged, and infirmed had left the city. According to the signs, the day of … Read More
After Kakadu we went to Darwin where we ended up staying for nearly two weeks. We loved Darwin, even in October! One of the first attractions we visited were the World War II Oil Storage Tunnels. Darwin was bombed in 1942 during World War II. There were more bombs dropped on Darwin that day than at Pearl Harbour months before. Seven of the eleven above ground fuel storage tanks were destroyed during the initial and subsequent bombings. They decided to … Read More
Recently I’ve taken a blogging break but I think I’m ready to keep going now. I’ve got several posts written but haven’t gotten them published. It seems that no matter how hard I work on this blog I am always at least a month behind. Creating a blog post means choosing pictures, editing pictures, writing text, and formatting everything. It’s time-consuming and becomes overwhelming when I feel like I’ll never catch up. But this is the journal of our trip … Read More
A flashback from Tasmania last March when we were on Bruny Island. There’s a map in this post that shows where we were. There are a few berry picking farms in Tasmania, enough that there’s even a lovely tourist brochure highlighting them all for you. We decided to save our berry picking adventures for Bruny Island where we visited…are you ready?…the aptly named Bruny Island Berry Farm. This could possibly be the best berry farm location ever. Right across from … Read More