This is Reggie.
No air con except for the windows were open or non existent but it was nice and cool travelling along.
There was a commentary as we toured the Darwin streets and quite a bit of history that we learnt. I didn't know that there had been a meat works here and after a dispute, where the workers marched on the Administrators house and in the end nothing was resolved but it did fold and the workers all lost their jobs.
Sounded similar to Ballarat and the Eureka Stockade. I'm sure none of them saw or realized that could/would be the result. It must have been a bit nasty as the admin guy and his family were bundled out of Darwin never to return. The Darwin Senior High School is now on the site.
We drove past the Casino and Mindil markets and then down to the beach. A funny (strange) thing, as we set off from outside the visitors information centre, we were asked/told to put our seat belts on, that was fair enough but when we were on the ramp to enter the water, we were asked to take the seatbelts off. Life jackets were above our heads if there was a need. Seatbelts went on again as we came up the beach.
Hitting the water, we continued on the tyres until we were fully emerged and then we were under power from the boat engine.
Quite a few boats, mainly catamarans were in the harbour which is five to seven times as big as Sydney harbour depending on the tides.
We were mainly close to the East coast and could only just see the West coast and during war time a chain mesh had been put/build between the two to guard against submarines coming into the harbour. I cannot imagine the size it would have needed to be.
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