Military Museum and Lake Alexander

We had decided to make an early start as it gets very hot in the afternoon to go walking about.
 We visited the Darwin Military Museum at East Point which has both inside and outside exhibits and a great interactive theatre experience of the bombing of Darwin. The museum is extremely well done and we learned a lot about the WW2 bombing of Darwin by the Japanese on Feb 19 1942.
It was only 2 months after Pearl Harbour and there were twice as many bombs dropped, the harbour had over 40 ships in and although it was a possibility they were really taken by surprise. The Japanese bombing of the Northern Territory lasted for 2 years and over 70 raids were experienced so the area took quite a pounding.
 We didn't realise the impact that happened Australia in WW2 really at all.

LandDrover Ambo

 They also had a section covering Vietnam and later military conflicts.
It had got hotter so I was determined to have a swim. On the way to the museum I had saw a park and lake so we got some lunch and found a cool spot under some trees.
Lake Alexander is a salt water lake right by the sea but safe from crocs and stingers. The stingers or jelly fish are not usually around at this time of year but it is still possible to get stung and none of the locals swim in the sea at all. The lake has half roped off for swimmers and the other part is for kayakers, paddle boards etc. The water was soooo nice,warm but refreshing,even Lloyd swam.

Lake Alexander