Oz Trip - Day 66

Day 66 – 6/7/2012 – The Deck Chair Cinema

A majority of the day was spent doing last a last minute shop, and starting to pack up camp for an early departure the following morning.

That night we went to the Deck Chair Cinema to see “Margin Call”. The cinema is an open air cinema where you can purchase dinner, have a few drinks and then relax back in a deckchair to watch the movie in the open air.

Outside movie theatre

Oz Trip - Day 65

Day 65 – 5/7/2012 – Mandorah Hotel and Mindil Markets

Today we caught the ferry from Cullen Bay over to Mandorah to have lunch at the Mandorah Hotel. It was only a 15 minute ride over calm water. As we were making our way across the bay, a navy boat was leaving.

Oz Trip - Day 64

Day 64 – 4/7/2012 – Military Museum

The main sight today was the Military Museum at the East Point Reserve. The interactive audio visual displays inside the museum were pretty good. It was pretty interesting to find out that Japanese planes had been spotted as far south as Katherine doing reconnaissance.

The most interesting thing that I saw and had always wondered, was how did the Japanese have detailed knowledge of the Australian top end. As it turned out, the Australian Government had employed Japanese topographers to map the area prior to any hostilities breaking out in WWII because of the knowledge gained their fishing fleets.

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Day 63 – 3/7/2012 – Dinner out

Again most of the day was spend running around doing jobs, planning where we were going to stay and making bookings due to peak season etc.

On our trip through East Point Reserve we found a nice restaurant that looked out over the water towards the CBD called PeeWees, so we booked in for a 6:30pm dinner. It was a perfect time, just on dusk. Sorry about the photo quality as it is from my phone.

Oz Trip - Day 62

Day 62 – 2/7/2012 – Cullen Bay

It was only a short day sight seeing day today as most of it was spent starting to do the jobs that needed doing, washing cooking etc.

We did visit the Cullen Bay marina and had lunch there.

Oz Trip - Day 61

Day 61 – 1/7/2012 – Sightseeing and Territory Day

We met up with Wayne and Jenny Cunningham, some friends from Bundaberg, for smoko. They were in Darwin visiting their son. It was good to catch up with them. Next stop was the CBD to do a bit of walking around. It was good that it was a Sunday as it was free parking everywhere and a lot less busier than a weekday.

We did a walk around the mall, the parklands and recreation precinct and the old Military Oil tunnels. In their area similar to Brisbane's South Bank and Sydney's Darling Harbour, their area called Darwin's Waterfront Precinct has a swimming beach and a wave pool. It all looks relatively new and is very nice.

The Mall

Oz Trip - Day 60

Day 60 – 30/6/2012 – Darwin

Because we finished Kakadu two days ahead of schedule we didn't have any accommodation organised in Darwin. So we stopped off in Jabaru to make some calls to see if we could get into anything. No success. Being school holidays and peak nomad season all of the van parks were pretty much fully booked. We decided to chance it and headed for the place that we had a booking for for in a couple of days. Luckily they were able to fit us in even though we turned up earlier than expected.