Day 15 – Tuesday 3 August 2021 – ?km

Another early start, we left our rough & ready bush camp, the Litchfield Safari Camp around 9am & turned towards Darwin. Thankfully the former dirt road was fully sealed last year and a new bridge built over the Finniss River. The traffic was light and the drive was uneventful, we stopped at Berry Springs to have a look, the car park was full & we had to park in a zone reserved for bus/coaches. We had a look & the springs are very pretty, we will have to come back for a swim. We arrived at our city well organized tidy campground with a couple of swimming pools & lots & lots of other campers around midday & setup, interestingly, next to another Kimberley Karavan. Most unusual. We unhitch & headed off to find some shops as we need some bread. We found a Woolworths shopping centre & decide on kebabs for lunch before heading into Darwin City.

We are surprised that Darwin is such a large & modern city, the centre is full of new buildings and has a youthful vibrancy about it. There are some lovely parks in the city precinct.  We parked next to the grassy esplanade along the harbour front. There was a Chemist Warehouse close by, we replenished our medicines before walking along the harbour front. The war memorial has a series of stories about the bombing of Darwin during the Second World War by the Japanese and is very interesting. There are so many sad stories. Back to the van by around 4pm & Tereza has a swim while I catch up on a meeting via Zoom. We meet our Kimberley neighbours afterwards & have a nice chat. Dinner is again good, I cooked tonight bacon & eggs on fresh bread rolls which really tops off another great day.