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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’
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                                                                   Carole in Storage tunnel
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