Hello again
Well the last day in Darwin was very full on starting with the air show open day at 9am. The various nations involved had their own tent stalls set up giving away lots of free stuff as well as tours of their own aircraft. The big line up of F18 jets looked awesome and the size of the supply carrying air craft was mind boggling. There was lots of action displays and even the Kiwis did a crowd pleasing Haka.
Next we headed into town to meet up with one of our nephews Tim and his girlfriend who we only by a chance sighting on Facebook found out was here at police college training to be a Territory Cop!!!!!!!(as seen on TV) so that was a very unexpected treat indeed.
Next was a visit to a camping, boating and fishing show that was on. It was very interesting but as it was about 34 deg most of the time was spent indoors enjoying the aircon.
The high light of the day was the night time drag racing where there was every thing racing from dragsters, modified bikes, super cars and nitro funny cars and ear plugs were definitely needed. Everything looked amazing under bright lights and you were very close to the action. The track was sprayed with a traction liquid which gave it that wet look and even though they did burn outs to warm up their tyres there was virtually no wheel spin so when both vehicles took off on a green light they were just gone! The fastest ones did the 1/2 mile in just over 6 seconds. After the racing there was a burn out competition by 9 high powered cars where they not only had to blow out both rear tyres but they carried on spinning around on the rims spraying massive showers of sparks as they chewed up the rims! You were very close to them and the crowd got sprayed with hot lumps of smouldering tyres which you could not see coming with all the smoke. A great crowd pleaser but very dangerous and I'm sure this could only happen in the crazy Northern Territory. When we arrived back at the camping ground it was midnight, calm and still about 25 deg so it was over to the showers to get cleaned up from the dust and to cool off.
Stephanie and I both really enjoyed this long and memorable day, especially the nights racing so it was a very fitting way to end the last day in this fantastic town.
Things are the opposite here, you go inside from the cold to get warm and we go inside from the warm to the aircon to get cool.