Day 3 - Exploring Darwin City

Today we toured a City that has been defined and shaped by TWO events in its short History - The WW2 Bombing Raids which started on the 19th February 1942 and the early morning of Christmas Day 1974.

Officially a Category 4 Tropical Cyclone, they are not sure exactly how ferocious Tracy was.

The anemometer at Darwin Airport recorded a gust of 217 km/h before the instrument and most of Darwin was destroyed.

49 People perished in the City that day
and a further 16 were lost at Sea.

We have a free day and have decided that the only way to see as much as possible was on the Hop-on/Hop-off Bus. So - we hopped on and off we went.

All the way to the Marina with its ferocious looking Street Art

and on to the Free Museum and Art Gallery - (A donation bucket was available if you felt inclined to unload some change).
When we had seen everything there was to see - enjoyed a Coffee at the Cafe

before heading off to the Mindil Beach Night Market.

Lots of Food Trucks
Buskers
and Local Handcrafts to tempt us.

One Stallholder told us that we should not leave Darwin before experiencing

"Our Iconic Sunset" 

Who am I to argue with that?