As we got closer to Darwin, we started to see many large ships, all of us converging into the main shipping channel, so I had to be very vigilant and make sure I was not on a collision course with any of them and to give them all plenty of sea room.
We arrived in Darwin, out front of the yacht club in Fanny Bay at 05:30 just before sun rise where I dropped the anchor. We had done 250 nautical miles since leaving the Berkeley River and it had taken 35 hours averaging 7.1 knots/hour. In total we had gone 579 nm.
At around 08:30 on the rising tide, I pulled the anchor, and we headed off to Bay View Marina, seven nautical miles away, entering the lock at around 09:20. After I had secured the boat, we spent the rest of the day packing up and cleaning the boat. For dinner I took Claudia to a Thai restaurant where we had a very nice meal.
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