Darwin- Day 93, 10/07/2016

I spent this morning uploading pictures to the blog as I'm very behind and I finally have a reliable mobile connection. Just after 10am we made our way down to Doctors Gully to check out the fish feeding at Aquascene, the kids had a great time feeding the fish and we stayed until they closed for the day. By this time it was lunch so we made our way across town to the Darwin Waterfront Precinct and spent the afternoon chilling out in the shade and swimming at town beach.

Later in the afternoon we made our way across to the Mindil Beach markets and the girls had a great time shopping and browsing the stalls. Sunset was fast approaching so we grabbed some dinner and joined the hundreds of people down on the beach to watch the sun disappear behind the horizon. We had one final wander through the markets and then gathered all of the goodies we had bought and made our way back to camp for another early night as we were all knackered.

Distance Traveled = 42 km
Total distance traveled with camper = 32,959, km 
Total number of nights in the camper = 224




































































































Darwin Waterfront

























The girls sand mermaid





















































































Anna got a new hat too..

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