Tuesday, 22nd June
We deliberately took our time packing up this morning as we only had 80 kms to drive and couldn’t book into the Darwin caravan park before noon. However, we were still on the road by 9.00 am, so decided to make the short detour of 20 kms back to Adelaide River. Somehow, we had missed the Australian War Cemetery on our way north and considered it was important enough to back track a little. For some reason, the Australian War Cemeteries are very emotional places, always beautifully maintained. It was quite moving to wander among the graves, reading the inscriptions and noting how young some of these men wear when they died serving our country.
As we continued north to Darwin, it became very obvious that the highway was virtually a continuous airstrip during WWII. We stopped for a short break at Strauss Air Field, where Cat had a lovely time “flying” the cut out planes.
Onwards to Darwin, arriving at the given hour of noon and joining the long queue of caravans waiting to be checked into the Freespirit Resort, just south of the Darwin Airport’s runway! We get to see all the big jets as they land and take off!!! This is a lovely big park, very professionally run, large grassy site with a slab and plenty of shade. Unfortunately, shade also means trees on the site. Today, I earned my caravanner’s badge – I directed Himself to reverse onto the site, with only a couple of centimetres to spare between the slab and the palm tree. No arguments, either. After setting up, it was a visit to Palmerston Shopping Centre to stock up on some very necessary fresh food.
We deliberately took our time packing up this morning as we only had 80 kms to drive and couldn’t book into the Darwin caravan park before noon. However, we were still on the road by 9.00 am, so decided to make the short detour of 20 kms back to Adelaide River. Somehow, we had missed the Australian War Cemetery on our way north and considered it was important enough to back track a little. For some reason, the Australian War Cemeteries are very emotional places, always beautifully maintained. It was quite moving to wander among the graves, reading the inscriptions and noting how young some of these men wear when they died serving our country.
As we continued north to Darwin, it became very obvious that the highway was virtually a continuous airstrip during WWII. We stopped for a short break at Strauss Air Field, where Cat had a lovely time “flying” the cut out planes.
Onwards to Darwin, arriving at the given hour of noon and joining the long queue of caravans waiting to be checked into the Freespirit Resort, just south of the Darwin Airport’s runway! We get to see all the big jets as they land and take off!!! This is a lovely big park, very professionally run, large grassy site with a slab and plenty of shade. Unfortunately, shade also means trees on the site. Today, I earned my caravanner’s badge – I directed Himself to reverse onto the site, with only a couple of centimetres to spare between the slab and the palm tree. No arguments, either. After setting up, it was a visit to Palmerston Shopping Centre to stock up on some very necessary fresh food.
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Where is Darwub??
Just checking to see if anyone is actually reading the blog!
We thought we were tight at the Bailey Bar caravan park!!
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