On Thursday morning we drove into Darwin city and were surprised at how small it was. I was looking forward to a shopping 'injection' however Darwin city wasn't going to be it. Many of the shops had closed up for good and others just didn't look appealing. We were looking specifically for a camera shop and eventually found one, but the salesperson wasn't in the least bit interested in talking to us. We left the city and on the way back to the caravan park we called into a couple of camping stores for a look and also found a helpful staff member in the camera section of a Harvey Norman store. I learned later that the place to shop would be Casuarina Square, however Myer and David Jones still aren't represented in Darwin.
For $10 per person the Big 4 Park puts on a bus into the Mindil Beach markets on Thursday nights. We decided to take advantage of this and wished we hadn't. It took ages for the driver to get the bus through the traffic all headed to the markets and beach. It is apparently a 'done thing' to go to the beach first to watch the sun set over the water and then wander around the market stalls. There were thousands of people all jostling and eating so it was almost impossible to stop to look at anything. We finally managed to find something to eat and somewhere to eat it (standing up) and then watched some of the entertainment which included some very talented flamethrowers. The bus finally returned to pick us up at 8:30pm (and none too soon for most of the passenger's liking). There is another free bus put on by the caravan park each day to the Casino, but it leaves at 9:30am and doesn't return until 3:30pm each day so we gave that one a miss.
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| Mindil Beach |
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| Watching the sun set over the beach |
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| Mindil Beach Markets at dusk |
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