Day 323 – Environmental Entrepreneurs!

• Howard Springs
• 31°c 

On todays schedule was an excursion to the EnviroBank! The multitudes of bottles and cans were loaded into Troys car and Mark’s clown car and we convoyed down to the EnviroBank. Once there, we waited in line to deliver our booty and the lady was very helpful and explained to us that they glass, aluminium and plastic had to be separated; tick! So the only thing we had to do was remove the lids from the plastic bottles, whilst we were doing this, the staff member weighed the cans and glass bottles and then counted all the plastic bottles. 

Seeing how the process works was really interesting, not only for the kiddos but for us adults as well. We were handed our receipt of good work and proceeded to the payment station, where to everyones delight the final tally was: 209 plastic bottles, 11.5 kgs cans, 93.5 kgs glass, 16 milk bottle/cartons!

Their hard work and recycling efforts earned the gang a total of $145.10! Wow and that was only in a couple of days. So it was split between the nine of them and on return to camp they each received $16.50. They are more determined than ever now that they’ve seen the fruits of their labour.

After lunch we headed into Darwin city to the museum which had many interesting displays but I think the one we were all most touched by was the Cyclone Tracey exhibit especially an actual recording of the cyclone played in a dark sound booth, it was really quite eerie! Sweetheart the 5 point something metre taxidermy crocodile was also quite a sight to behold, it is said that he took a bite out of quite a few tinnys!

Next stop was the war museum at East Point but seeing as by now it was nearly closing time we couldn’t justify the admission price for the time we had, so instead we took ourselves on a tour of the external buildings including the massive bunker and gun houses.

After that it was off to the wharf for a nearly sunset dinner before returning home with two children in need of an early night whilst Daddy hitched a ride with the two bigger boys to the pub!