19th July, 2014

Today we drove into Darwin and went to East Point which is where the powers that be decided Darwin would be defended from during the war years. It was interesting to read about the large 9.2 inch and 6 inch guns installed here to defend our country and to look at some of the mounting points for the guns. Most of the guns were never actually shot in anger.

This is where one of the 9.2 inch guns was installed.

Then we went around to a park to have some lunch but felt very uncomfortable in the presence of some arguing and alcohol affected indigenous persons, unfortunately not the first time this holiday, so we didn't stay very long.

After that we drove to one of FREE water parks near Palmerston. What a great government initiative these are, free pools and water slides in large expanses of parkland. We all had a ball riding the water slides and swimming in the pools. 

From there we did some shopping before returning to camp to devour yesterday's catch.

We are going to have to stay here at the van park another night as we haven't left enough time to pack everything ready for a quick departure. Another issue is that after 3 weeks on the road the campers batteries desperately need a solid charge. We tried to get a powered site here for that purpose but they didn't have any, hopefully they can fix me up with an extension cord this morning.