The waterfront

The wave pool, you get use of rings and boogie boards to use in the pool.  Its huge and very impressive.  The kids big and small were having a ball

Heaps of kiddie type pools for those too little to enter the waves

Part of the beach area next to the wave lagoon

The Convention Centre overlooking the water

Part of the "beach area"

Darwin has a beautiful waterfront precinct I must admit.   Multi storey carpark here, 2 hrs, free 3rd hour $1.  So cheap.   You come out of the carpark and are faced with in the foreground, lush green lawns, a huge Wave Pool Lagoon (10 wave patterns here, its up to 2M deep) an enclosed sandy beach, where you can swim or just sunbake on the sand or lawns.  This is right in the CBD.  The Convention Centre is here.   Very much like a docklands complex with shops and restaurants below and apartments above.   At the rear of this is the Stokes Wharf area, an historic wharf, bombed in World War 2,  (more than a hundred lives lost here both on the wharf and the ships in port) a little downmarket than I expected, but lots of food places here.  It is undergoing renovations so may end up looking better.   Had fish n chips on the wharf and then, luckily we were able to feed some fish that hang around waiting not for bait but for leftovers.  They love their chips.   Offered it some icecream cone but wasnt interested.Fed what I think was a moonfish - beautiful big striped fish with bright yellow fins and tail.  The fishermen further down the wharf (you cant fish in the cafe sections) were complaining that the fish are too well fed and wont come near their lines.!!!