Day 25 - Darwin
The night cooled right off last night so not only did we turn the air conditioner off, but it was almost too cool to have the windows open! Even worse, because we had to get up so early this morning, I had to wear a jumper when we left the caravan at 7:30am.Today we were getting the car serviced, and had to drop it off before 8am. Now every other car service centre I have been to could learn some lessons in customer service from Bridge Toyota here in Darwin. As I drive into the service centre this morning, I am directed to the appropriate lane out the front of the office. A lady opens my door and is standing there with a tray of freshly made coffees (and no Nescafe either - proper cappucino and latte) which she offers Greg and I, as well as biscuits. A guy then comes out to go through the paperwork and check if we have any special requests. He then takes us through to our service co-ordinator who will keep us informed during the day. Well, if first impressions were anything to go by, we were impressed.
From there, we walked into the CBD and had breakfast at a cafe recommended to us by Hayden called the Duck's Nuts. That was yummy so we lingered over that while we planned how to fill in our day while our car was away. We decided on the hop on-hop off bus tour so wandered down to the information centre and bought our tickets. We thought we'd do the full circuit of the tour first, and then keep going through to the museum, where we had arranged to meet the Thomas'. The bus tour was quite good, with interesting stories which kept both Greg and I interested.
(spot us on the bus!)
An hour and a half later we got off at the museum. I was keen to see the Cyclone Tracy exhibition - even though I was very little in December 1974 when the cyclone came through, I remember it very vividly, presumably because she shared my name. The exhibition was quite good, with some great early video footage, some sound grabs and a sound room which you can go into and it's dark like it would have been on the night, with the sounds of the wind and the roof lifting etc. We checked out a few other exhibits and then settled into a yummy lunch at the museum cafe. The Thomas' headed back to the caravan park for a swim etc and we continued on the bus tour before walking back to get our car.
Some of the palatial waterfront suburbs in Darwin
Entrance to the World War II oil tunnels which were commissioned for storage of oil after Darwi was bombed by the war finished before they were ever used.
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