A view from the Moil water tower in 1975, after Cyclone Tracy. Its a huge concrete tower, which had a fridge embedded in the side of it. The arrow points out my house.. the large buildings below the arrow are Casuarina High School, where I was studying year 10. This photo would have been taken at least a couple of days into the new year, the roads are clear of debris.
My apologies for the quality of the images. These are just scanned prints from a cheap 1960s camera, some of the images I havent got to restoring yet.
The front of my house in early January 1975. Thats a power pole blocking the drive, still firmly concreted into the ground.
The rear, a couple of shots over the space of a month.
Looking down the street, thats the next door neighbours driveway. Ours still has the power pole blocking it.
The houses behind us. Darwin basically had two kinds of houses. Double brick ground level, or fibro houses on concrete stilts. They built them high to try and catch some breeze.
Almost all of the fibro houses were completely destroyed, and even the pillars leaned, as you can see in this photo.
There were some houses in Tiwi that were floorboards only, and every pillar was at 45 degrees, quite surreal.
A few friends houses.
The suburb of Tiwi.