A more relaxing day today, but still enjoying Darwin. We hung around the caravan park and had a morning off – well actually the kids and I did, while Nick went and tried to find somewhere to wash the car but didn’t succeed (queues are too long on a Sunday morning) and refill the gas cylinder etc, then after lunch we headed off to the museum. It has a mummified 5m crocodile which they caught near Darwin in the 1970s which is pretty impressive (in a scary way), and also an exhibition on Cyclone Tracey, which was quite sobering. It made Conor quite uncomfortable, especially the booth you can go into to listen to a recording someone made during the cyclone, which you listen to in the pitch dark. I didn’t last very long in there either.
Then this evening we stayed in town and went to the sunset markets at Mindill Beach, which were great. I guess they were pretty standard in terms of touristy stuff, but great food and a huge selection of different foods. We sampled crab cooked a couple of different ways, prawns different ways, seafood laksa, pizza, fairy floss, ice cream and smoothies. Hard to believe but at the end of that, Conor has now come home and asked for a crumpet before bed. Must be having a growth spurt. Both of the boys now have really long hair (for them anyway) which needs a cut!
Tomorrow morning it’s off to Litchfield for a few nights, and then Kakadu.
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