Out and about in Darwin

 


                                        Overlooking Darwin at the National Park

Today was a day about aviation (at the Aviation Museum and Ross & Keith Smith Memorial), Cyclone Tracey at the Darwin Museum, learning about crocodiles, relaxing in Darwin at the Wave Pool and on the Stokes Hill Wharf.


B52 bomber at the Aviation Museum


At the Memorial to Ross and Keith Smith. This is where they landed in 1919 when they reached Darwin.




Crocodiles at Crocosaurus Cove (a facility in the centre of Darwin)

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