We have just finished another lovely week with our Darwin family. We took the kids to some of the well organised school holiday activities here in Darwin and had some good conversations with their parents. Then we were again granted leave of absence and took of for Lichfield park on Friday. We spent the night at Florence Falls in the camping area above the falls. This is a bush camping area and we had the the pleasure of cooking on a bonfire. However the pool is 2 tracks and 135 steps down, and of course up again so we packed our bags Saturday morning and went back to Wangi falls. Here we met a very nice couple with a van similar to ours and spent some time chatting. This morning I did the so-called Wangi loop walk, 1.6km up and over the falls and down the other side really earning my breakfast. On the way back we stopped one of the roadside airstrips that housed both the American and then the Australian Air Force during the northern defence of Australia. This was all very serious as the Japanese forces put a lot of effort into preparing Darwin (and other places) for invasion and the Air Force was the stopper. This particular airstrip has story board telling about these roadside airstrips plus cut outs from heavy grade aluminium properly painted to represent the types of fighters using the airstrip.
We are now parked back at Tudawalli street ready for the next week.