11 August 2016 – 182 230
Indopacific Marine, Australian Aviation Heritage Centre and
Mindil Beach Market Flyover
Indopacific Marine is a closed marine environment, the water in the tanks is not changed or filtered, no food is added – it is a completely closed environment. Above the tanks are skylights to allow natural sun and moon light to reach the tanks. The water in the main tank was put in 24 years ago and looks crystal clear. We saw a variety of corals, sponges, fish, lobster, sea cucumbers etc characteristic of tropical reef. We again had a picnic lunch. The Australian Aviation Heritage Centre was our plan for the afternoon. This has one of only two B52 bombers outside of the USA – it is huge!! They had a great variety of aircraft here, probably the biggest collection I have personally seen. As the Aviation Centre is located at the airport it gave a great view of the military aircraft taking off and landing as part of Exercise Pitch Black 2016. It was quite funny to see boys and grown men alike running for the hangar doors to watch each time they heard the jets.
After a swim at the caravan park we once
again headed to Mindil Beach Markets for dinner. We took our dinner down onto the beach so we
would be able to watch the Super Hornet manoeuvre display – it looked like most
people present in Darwin, tourist and locals alike, were on the beach.
The Super Hornet display was pretty cool; wing
waggling, steep climb and pirouettes, etc.
There were then many other aircraft types, either singly or in
formations flying low over the beach.
The noise was extreme! When we
got back to the caravan park we were again treated to various military aircraft
taking off and landing.
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