Chasing Memories...

Saturday, February 14. Valentines Day and our Granddaughter's Birthday!  Rain, muggy. 28 C.

We were on a four hour Shore Excursion this morning. 'The Defense of Darwin' was the name of it. The Darwin of today is not the Darwin of 22 years ago when we were here last. Today's Darwin is a sleek city with modern buildings, looking like any modern city. The weather has not  changed; hot, humid, rain and then dry. Any evidence of WW ll has long gone, of course. It was a well done tour, the problem was my expectation level, as is often the case with me.

Like many things in life, there are some things that you just cannot revisit and expect to get the same sense of excitement as you did the first time you experienced that feeling. And, there are some that you can do over and over and that feeling is still there; like a good roast beef and Yorkshire Pudding dinner. Well, today I was expecting to see Darwin in the same way as when we saw Darwin 22 years ago.  And, that was not to be the case! My bad.

Our clocks go back 1 1/2  hours tonight. I think the Captain could have done this a bit better, he moved us back 1/2 hour since we left Cairns, I think he could have done it in two one hour segments!

A Good Day, Nice to be Here.

Those Pilot Boats are a pleasant start to the day, the world over.

What happened to Quaintsy Darwin?

This tunnel was built by the Australians to house defence supplies as the Japanese bombed Darwin for over a year and the tunnels were bomb proof. They were built into the side of cliffs.

This is about the halfway point in the tunnel that was maybe 200 yards deep, very humid.

Tunnel Poster.

                                 

Just stuff.

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