One of the different things about Darwin is that there is really nothing much that is very old...and you can put that mainly down to Cyclone Tracy. You can remember that it flatten Darwin but that really doesn't sink in until you look around and see that just about everything is relatively new. In the heart of the city, most of the "old" buildings are from the 1960's because they were strong enough to survive. This impression of Darwin was reinforced by our morning walk down to the wharfs and back through the waterfront development.
After lunch we went for a drive and visited the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. The centrepiece display for tourists is, of course, the story of Cyclone Tracy and the impact it had on Darwin. Standing in the "cyclone room", it was interesting to listen to what it sounded like...but I don't think they were playing it at full volume!
After the Museum, we drove out to East Point (to find a really old cache of course) before heading back to our motel. Dinner this evening was Thai but not before we went and finished another really old cache that we had started in the morning...a multiple step one that took us, rather conveniently, around the wharfs which is what we had intended to do anyway...promise!
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