Here at last and into the history and rain!

 

At the airport, ready to go


At dinner at Stokes Hill Wharf after a long walk -  wet but happy!



Looking at the re-constructed bombed Post Office on the walk back to hotel - doing history on a Saturday night in the rain in Darwin.

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