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he next day, 18 th August is the and continued on to the ‘Cyclone ext up, we discovered the
T first day of our “Outback Tracy’ exhibition centre where we Nincredible beauty of this old
Discovery” tour, and it is a free day viewed photos of the devastation the city with the Darwin Waterfront
for us, so we had arranged a tour of cyclone caused and also standing in a and the Darwin Botanical Gardens
Darwin sights. room where we could hear what it before we stopped off at the Fannie
would have been like for those Bay Gaol.
e walked from our
Waccommodation at 09:00 to people caught up in the cyclone.
Smith Street where we were picked
up in this open air vehicle
resembling a big tub, luckily it had
a canopy to protect us from the sun.
ur friendly local driver
Oprovided us with a full
commentary as we cruised through
the city, taking in all the top spots.
Our first stop took in the beautiful
and historical Palmerston Town
before we went on to view
Parliament House. From there we
drove on to the WWII storage
tunnels where we alighted and
explored the tunnels on foot.
fter spending some time in the
Atunnels we re boarded the ‘Tub’
Storage tunnel
Carole in Storage tunnel