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We flew from Brisbane to Darwin to spend a few days making ready our bikes & choosing up Keith’s new bike. This has been good acclimatisation to the warmth (up to now over 30 every day – loads of cooling dips in our lodge pool.)
Checking all our gear that we had left right here with our bikes practically 3 years in the past, has been profitable with nothing lacking. “The Scooter Store” the place we had saved them had serviced & carried out minor repairs and had an enormous storage invoice for us. Nevertheless Darren, the proprietor gave us a really substantial low cost on all of this so all events have been blissful or a minimum of solely barely sad. We ended up with a few containers of doubled up elements & driving gear being couriered residence through Whites Powersports in Melbourne.
Friday was a free day so Ian & Brenton rode to Florence Falls a well-known vacationer spot (145kms every means) & Keith & I visited the Army Museum at East Level. (Ian & Keith had executed the Museum 3 years in the past)
The Museum is effectively price a go to. Numerous info and reveals together with a graphic movie
detailing the Japanese assaults on Darwin in February 1942. 250 folks have been killed – primarily civilians as they bombed indiscriminately, ships within the harbour, the wharves & the entire city. Additionally they attacked Broome a month later killing 88 there. The museum coated 1st & 2nd world wars & the defences that have been put in on the website on the graduation of WW11. This included a 9” gun which had an 11km vary. Sadly it was by no means utilized in battle because the assaults got here from the air not from the ocean that the gun was designed for . The Vietnam battle was additionally effectively coated.
When you’re into historical past it’s positively effectively price a go to.
Tomorrow we go away Darwin and head to Coroboree Lagoon, solely 88kms, for a cruise on the wetlands the place we’re informed we are going to see loads of wildlife together with some massive crocs. Good info for our river crossings!!
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