Day 33 Darwin

We started out by going to the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northen Territory. It started out with a lot of aboriginal artworks and went into a crossroad with two ways to go. The way we went first went into the maritime section of the museum which had lots of maritime stories in it, and the second part of the maritime section had a big walkway over about 6 sail boats and a lot of canoes and aboriginal vessels that were donated to the museum after they weren’t in use anymore. The other section had everything about Cyclone Tracy and the impact it had on people. The next part had a lot of marine life and through a hallway near the exit, there was lots of things like birds, butterflies and there was even a 2-meter saltwater crocodile that was captured about 50 years ago. After we went to the museum, we went to the wave pool in Darwin. The waves were pretty fun to swim in and they were really tall on the sides. After that, we went to a fish feeding thing where all the fish in the ocean would come into a little inlet in high tide and people feed them. They gave us some bread and there were lots of catfish and mullet in there. There was also some different fish like trevally, barramundi and bat fish! There were a few mangrove fish in a pond on the other side like some big mangrove jack and a mud crab. If you dangled some bread in the water instead of throwing it in, a bat fish might come up and eat it and then you can pat it on the side. There was also this 1.5-meter-long fish that sticks its fin out of the water like a shark and it is blue and green on the top. After we finished the fish feeding, we got dinner and went to bed.

Lots of mullet swimming around and a trevally diving

Mullet and catfish in the water and a big bat fish just below them all

Catfish coming near the surface of the water