Mangrove Boardwalk — Attraction in East Point

It was a rainy Tuesday afternoon during our School Holidays. Went for a drive with the Grandkids to check out the playground, the historic sights at East Point, and to see if the wallabies had ventured out. A very beautiful place and is FREE to wander around. East Point is home to the Darwin Military Museum (pay Admission) and some gun turrets and sheds from WW2 that I think are free to roam around in and the Pony Club backs onto the Museum. Some beautiful walking tracks, PeeWee's restaurant(check times), and an area to fly model Planes are available. Two large playgrounds and Lake Alexander is able to be safely swum in all year round. BBQ's available for picnics and toilet blocks. At low tide at East Point you can fish off the rocks and maybe catch our famous barramundi! Lots to do and you can do it all for...

Great short walk into the wilderness. Enjoy the mangroves at end and explore different birds and crabs while reaching the final boardwalk. Once you enter the dense bush area, it’s not too far before you are at end.

Some Tiwi people camp in the bushes during day. You won’t see or hear them mostly but might see a free passing by when you are walking. It was interesting to talk to some of them as they showed me their camp sites and taught some words of their language (...

Nature always makes you wonder , this place is best to be when there is a high tide with boardwalk submerged in water, we went there when there was low tide and no water , love the ambience but feels like dead to be honest. So my recommendation is to be there only on high tide when boardwalk is submerged, after you all are there to fell like walking on water right? But no wonder it’s a great place to be in peace and be with nature including water land and...