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City people have been going to Darwin in the Northern Territory for 150 years for all sorts of reasons. Please follow the link on my profile for the story, "150 Years of Ipswich to Top End Adventure." Prior to heading out into the Timor Sea to my Tiwi Islands Hike for Health, I visited the Northern Territory’s Mary River which boasts the highest concentration of saltwater crocodiles in the world. It certainly delivered with crocodiles, water buffalo, and jabiru in abundance. Darwin in the Northern Territory is one of only 10 places in the world that you can see a Cold War era B52 bomber, and at almost 50 metres long, it’s absolutely enormous. You can even still see where the Cruise Missiles were attached. During the first bombing of Darwin on the 19th of February 1942, this Japanese Zero was shot down, its pilot captured by Tiwi Islander Mathias, and the wreckage is now here at the Darwin Aviation Museum. Camels were imported in greater numbers from the 1860s to assist with inland exploration, including the Burke & Wills expedition. Today Australia has the largest population of wild camels in the world, and in the Northern Territory I took a magical camel ride back through time as the sun set over the Timor Sea. Hard to beat when the Sun, Moon and Venus say goodnight together over the Timor Sea 🙂 On the 19th of February 1942, ten weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbour and four days after the fall of Singspore, the Japanese attack Australia and bomb Darwin for the first time. USS Peary is sunk for the US Navy's biggest loss of life in Australian waters. She goes down with guns blazing – this is one of those guns. Here’s The Honourable John Mickel, former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, this week admiring traditional Tiwi Islands art that I brought back from a previous visit. John is honoured to support my #TiwiIslandsHikeforHealth in which I’m attending the Tiwi Islands football grand final to highlight the community that knows a healthy sport can be celebrated without an unhealthy mix of alcohol. I’m raising money for the charity @drug.arm to reduce the harms of alcohol and other drugs. More than 50% of intimate partner homicides involve alcohol use, and yet alcohol companies still advertise their products as tools of sporting celebration after which domestic violence spikes. We need to do better than that. Please make your tax-deductible donation by visiting www.mycause.com.au and searching for “Tiwi Islands Hike for Health” or follow the link on my profile to go to my website www.historyoutthere.com and you'll see the tile to click there. The earliest documented motorists to drive from Queensland to Darwin were these four men 101 years ago from the Darling Downs. Please following the link on my profile for this previously forgotten story, "Queensland’s First Drive to Darwin.

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