Cruising Sydney to Hong Kong 2025 – Darwin

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From Moreton Island we travelled north and stopped at Townsville and Cairns. We did very little in both cities other than walk around to get some exercise and attempt to fight off the effects of superb cuisine.

While on this leg we were recognised for achieving 500 sailed days with Seabourn and were presented a small gift and a bunch of flowers by the Captain.

Darwin was hot and humid (as expected at this time of year!). We spent two days here and did a lot of walking around viewing the magnificent street art – and some shoe shopping for Sue who found a shop having closing down sale.

There is an enormous amount of excellent street art in Darwin and I took about 100 photos but have only displayed a sample here. The scale of some of the paintings is amazing.

On the second day in Darwin we walked back to the ship rather than catch the shuttle bus and visited the World War II oil tunnels on the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_oil_storage_tunnels

We walked along an access tunnel to get to the storage tunnel.

The storage tunnel is basically the inside of a storage tank.

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2 Responses to Cruising Sydney to Hong Kong 2025 – Darwin

  1. We clearly didn’t walk enough in the right places in Cairns when we were there last year as I don’t recollect that much street art, though we did see some. Loved your pics.

    And I remember seeing those tunnels in Darwin on one of our trips there. Darwin has some great stories, and such a diverse history. Love going there (in the dry!)

  2. Oops, the street art is Darwin of course … they have probably mostly been done since we were last there. We were supposed to be there in 2015, but that cancelled due to a family accident, so our most recent trip was few years before that. I guess street art has really only taken off in the last ten years.

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