Latest / 360 with Katie Woolf / Your guide to school holiday activities at the Darwin Waterfront for the Easter Holidays with Marketing Manager Kathy Burns
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- 0:00Speaker 1: There is plenty happening right around the Northern Territory. I
- 0:02Speaker 1: know that a lot of parents at the moment and grandparents, caregivers,
- 0:07Speaker 1: everybody looking for things to entertain the children. I'm very
- 0:10Speaker 1: lucky that Granny's got the kids for the next few days,
- 0:13Speaker 1: but no doubt she'll be looking for ways to entertain
- 0:16Speaker 1: the kids as well. And joining me on the line
- 0:18Speaker 1: right now from the Darwin Waterfront. It is the events
- 0:21Speaker 1: and marketing manager. And let me just make sure I've
- 0:24Speaker 1: got my notes here. Kathy Burns. Good morning to you.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Good morning, how you going really well?
- 0:29Speaker 1: Kathy. I know you guys have got a lot on
- 0:32Speaker 1: for the school holiday program. At the moment, we do.
- 0:35Speaker 2: Jam pack right now. We've got our Surf Life Saving
- 0:38Speaker 2: NIPPERS program underway with lots of kids down here learning
- 0:41Speaker 2: some serious fun. Oh that's too fantastic, Yeah, I reckon,
- 0:45Speaker 2: that's a great one.
- 0:46Speaker 1: Good.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Yeah, lots of learning all everything from CPR training to
- 0:50Speaker 2: paddle boarding, you know. So it's a really good way
- 0:52Speaker 2: for the kids to be able to learn all that,
- 0:53Speaker 2: you know, when you're having fun around the beaches here
- 0:56Speaker 2: and getting involved with a surf life saving teams. It's
- 0:58Speaker 2: a really good, good start into the water for them.
- 1:00Speaker 1: So, Kathy, that's what's happening today and what's happening for
- 1:04Speaker 1: the rest of the week.
- 1:05Speaker 2: So tomorrow, we've brought it back again. It's always our
- 1:08Speaker 2: ever popular water war zone activity, and it's bigger than
- 1:11Speaker 2: better because we're adding jewel Lane water slides. We've got
- 1:15Speaker 2: foaming cannon guns. It's a day of super soakers and
- 1:18Speaker 2: water balloons and just having water wars. When I'm down
- 1:21Speaker 2: here at the waterfront.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Oh sounds like well, I reckon, my son would love that.
- 1:25Speaker 1: The boys would love that. I'm sure the girls would
- 1:27Speaker 1: as well. But it sounds like a lot of fun.
- 1:30Speaker 2: It sounds like a huge lot of fun. And if
- 1:32Speaker 2: you don't like that, then you come on Thursday to
- 1:34Speaker 2: our do you accept our Challenge Day. We've got a
- 1:37Speaker 2: giant game of Twister. We've got a bungee sling so
- 1:41Speaker 2: you can erase your friends with a good strength and
- 1:43Speaker 2: endurance on a blown bungee slingshot, or duel in a
- 1:46Speaker 2: big gladiator tent as well.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I feel like I want to give the bungee slingshot
- 1:50Speaker 1: a go.
- 1:51Speaker 2: I think some of the parents will be hanging around.
- 1:53Speaker 2: It's not seen back on a sun lounger watching the accents.
- 1:55Speaker 1: As were, and Kathy, have you got much then happening
- 1:59Speaker 1: for the weekend? You know around Easter we do.
- 2:03Speaker 2: So Friday we've got on Good Friday, we've got the
- 2:05Speaker 2: Burning Circus here, so Circus by the Beach. Saturday, we've
- 2:09Speaker 2: got our Suit Up Saturday event, so it's what you
- 2:11Speaker 2: dress up as your favorite movie, book or games character.
- 2:14Speaker 2: And adding on to this event this time, we've got
- 2:16Speaker 2: a giant inflatable screen, so we're going to start up
- 2:18Speaker 2: with some Mario cut gaming battles on the big screen
- 2:21Speaker 2: that anyone can join in and win some prizes. And
- 2:23Speaker 2: then a feature film screening of Tom and Jerry, the
- 2:26Speaker 2: latest twenty twenty one version. And then we kick in
- 2:29Speaker 2: for Sunday Easter Sunday celebrations. We've got our waterfront activity farm,
- 2:33Speaker 2: so we've got Easter Bunny down here taking photos to
- 2:35Speaker 2: meet and greet. We've got a beautiful high Tea party
- 2:38Speaker 2: this year, so you can book in and have a
- 2:39Speaker 2: beautiful high Tea party and get a morning tea pack.
- 2:42Speaker 2: We've got the animal Petting zoop you can come down
- 2:44Speaker 2: and cut some cute little bunnies We've got total lake
- 2:48Speaker 2: here by the recreation of the goons for lots of
- 2:50Speaker 2: water fun activities with totals, got lawn games and tractors
- 2:54Speaker 2: to explore. There's so much going on, so wow, water Fun.
- 2:58Speaker 1: Got it all covered for the for the school holidays
- 3:01Speaker 1: and also for ester. It sounds fantastic and I know it.
- 3:04Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we sort of think to ourselves, what
- 3:06Speaker 1: can we do with the kids? You know, you start
- 3:08Speaker 1: to get a bit or they start to get a
- 3:10Speaker 1: bit bored.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Yeah, and the waterfront's fantastic for that because if you
- 3:14Speaker 2: come down and you don't know what to do, well,
- 3:16Speaker 2: there's the Aqua Park. You can wear them out the
- 3:17Speaker 2: aqua part challenge course, hires some paddle boards, jump over
- 3:21Speaker 2: to the wave lagoon and ride the waves for a
- 3:22Speaker 2: little while, order to sit around the pathlands and play
- 3:25Speaker 2: on the playground and eat lots of food.
- 3:26Speaker 1: Yeah, all good stuff. Kathy. I'm pleased to hear there
- 3:29Speaker 1: is so much going on. I'll try and get down
- 3:31Speaker 1: there with the kids at some point as well. So
- 3:33Speaker 1: thank you very much for having a chat with us
- 3:35Speaker 1: this morning.
- 3:36Speaker 2: Happy holidays everyone, you too.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Thank you