Getting back to Darwin

 


Zebra Rock on the way to Litchfield National Park



















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts

The 2022 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize students are presented with their awards

Image
The 2022 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize awardees with The Honourable Blair Boyer MP, Minister for Education. At the Adelaide Town Hall Meeting Room on 21 November 2022, the 2022 Premier's Anzac Spirit School Prize students were presented with their medallions and certificates. It was a great ceremony for the 2022 awardees and the 2021 awardees did us proud by presenting on the recently completed October 2022 study tour to Darwin.  Here is a selection of images taken by the professional photographer from ClickFilms we contracted for the ceremony. Some great photographs!  
Read more

So many stories preserved

Image
The feeling of trying to uncover meanings By Jasmine Baker After a lengthy journey to Kakadu from Darwin, we arrived at an area surrounded by tropical scrub. Walking down a rocky path, we were greeted by beautiful swampy surroundings. The native flora in the area was a fascinating accompaniment to our walk in the hot, thick air. The scrub cleared and we arrived at a tall escarpment. After a short walk, we arrived at Ubirr - a beautiful site consisting of Indigenous rock art. The images presented to us were around 1500 years old, from the most recent freshwater period. The art allowed us to step back into this time, observing the abundance of food in the area - images of barramundi, goannas and echidnas. Some paintings are said to have been 2000-3000 years old. The feeling of trying to uncover meanings and piece these to aspects of history was nothing short of fascinating. We marvelled at what was before us, so many stories preserved over a period of time so hard to grasp. The most ...
Read more

They were actually there!

Image
                          Image from the Virtual War Memorial at  Virtual War Memorial (vwma.org.au) Going to the primary sources In our research for the trip it is very important that we seek out the primary sources for the bombing of Darwin story - to listen to and read from those who were actually there on those fateful days.  Primary sources are critical for us to understand the state of mind of those involved and to piece together a complete story of the bombing. When we are in Darwin we will be at museums that will profile the stories of the survivors of the bombing but we thought it would be good if you spent some time now listening and reading the stories of some of the survivors. Feel free to search for other sources with the survivors talking about their experiences in 1942.  Please email the links to Malcolm if you come across some survivor stories to share with the group before we go. Source...
Read more