We started the day by going to the Cathedral to what was
advertised as 9am Sung Eucharist to arrive and find dogs everywhere. The service was a pet blessing service
celebrating St Francis of assisi, Despite initially being a little surprised we
enjoyed the service which had been shortened significantly due to the short
attention span of many of the attendees according to the Dean. We stayed for morning tea they had good
coffee but we were left to our own devices.
We took the opportunity after church to walk to the wharf
development. Gladstone could certainly
take a leaf out of Darwin’s book. What a
magnificent complex with bathing areas including a wave pool as well as
shopping and apartment complexes back up to Smith Street where we did the
historic tour and walked through the mall without the hustle and bustle of the
weekday crowds.
Our other event for today was a visit to the Aviation Museum
wow I can’t believe how large the B52 bomber was, it was massive and we both
enjoyed walking around the memorabilia, particularly that of world war II and
Darwin. I found it incredible an old
plane could be converted to a caravan.
We finished the day with a visit to the Mindil
Markets where we had tea and watched the sun set over Fannie Bay. As we were about to leave we noticed a crowd
off to one side and went to find an acrobat performing.
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