Sunday 31 July 2011

31/7/11 HMAS Coonawarra Open Day

Sunday in Darwin is market day.  After breakfast we went to the market at (suburb) Rapid Creek.  It has lots of Asian cooking and vegetables for sale. I do not recognise most of the the herbs and vegetables, let alone known how to prepare them for eating.  The mango smoothies were delicious.  Next we went to the (suburb) Nightcliff market.  It has lots of nick nacks and brightly coloured tropical clothing.  We enjoyed yummy savoury crepes. We watched an aboriginal man working on a beautiful intricate painting.


It was an open day at the Naval station, HMAS Coonawarra.  We wandered around looking at the displays in the base and watched a display of  precision marching.  We drove to the harbour and went aboard HMAS Darwin.  We watched a sailor being lowered from a naval helicopter.

  

In the evening we went to Mindil Beach for the sunset market.  We bought some food and sat on the beach with hundreds of others to watch the sky changing colour and the big glowing orb of the sun dipping down into the sea.
  

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