Wednesday, 14 August 2013

12/08/2013 to 14/08/2013 Darwin - Again!

12/08/2013  Darwin

We returned to Darwin (Lee Point C.Van Park) and did all the necessary town things ... filling the gas bottle, getting a quote on new tyres, shopping for groceries, taking sunset pictures etc.

Every night we listen to curlews calling to each other. It is a weird sound. When we heard it on our first trip north we were frightened because we didn't know what on earth it was.

13/08/2013  Darwin

Gerd spent the whole morning fixing the left hand rear mudflap on the car which he damaged on Sunday at the Lost City when he backed against a large rock.

We went to Casuarina Shopping Town and both of us had hair cut. Mine is almost as short  as Gerd’s but I have a lot more on top!

We made a picnic lunch and went to East Point Reserve to eat. After lunch we visited Fanny Bay Gaol and then the refurbished War Museum. It has an excellent interactive display about the Japanese attack on Darwin and northern Australia’s defences in WW2.

14/08/2013  Darwin

Today we got up early and did a major wash (sheets and towels) then we headed out to Gunn Point again - our 3rd visit - to go fossil hunting.

I am intrigued by the hermit crabs. If you hang onto them they pop out of their borrowed shells and drop down onto the beach to scamper away and go house hunting.




We saw an egg in a depression in the sand. There were some curlews hanging around so we presume that it was their offspring.



Gerd had a very successful day fossil hunting.  He found several large ones, about 10 cm in length.
I found less and only smaller ones. I think that we should have swapped spectacles.  It was a good day. The tide was in when we arrived but was at least 120 metres off shore by the time we left.



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