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Darwin Sunday.We went to an independent church for the morning service which began at 10 and at 11.45 when we sneaked out they still had to have communion, ministry and a meal together.It was good to see so many young people but the music was a bit too hectic for us.The message was good and it is obviously a growing church.After lunch we went to the NT museum and art gallery specifically to see the exhibition about cyclone Tracy which devastated 70% of Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974.During the worst of it a clergyman recorded the storm and at the museum you go into a small dark room and the tape is played so it really is like being there in 1974 sheltering under the stairs or in a cellar, terrifying.Sunday afternoons at a 1930s nation trust property there is high tea in the garden so we thought that would be nice but it was packed and we would have had to wait and wait for a table and by then we thought the food would have run out so we abandoned the idea.Monday.Down to Doctors Gully by the bay to see the fish feeding.Accounts differ as to whether it was a doctors wife or somebodyelse started feeding the fish at the bottom of their garden.More and more fish started coming and eventually whoever was feeding them thought we could make a tourist attraction out of this.It only happens at high tide so today it was 9.30 - 12.30.Very popular and very nice to see the children especially little tots stood in the water feeding the fish by hand.Lunch at the marina and then a tour of parliament house which is the most modern parliament in Australia because it was built in the late 70s after cyclone Tracy smashed the other one to bits.Lovely building and an interesting self guide tour with just enough reading to do.Unfortunately they were not sitting today but afternoon tea on the terrace more than made up for missing them debating.When we got back to the car we realised we were parked outside the cathedral which again is a 1970s building.It is a beautiful modern design but already the stained glass windows are in a bad condition and a tapestry they had on the wall has had to be replaced because of the humidity.Darwin is a very modern city because of Tracy and it is very lush with most of the buildings hidden behind palm trees and bushes.
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