When you go to a fish feeding show in Darwin, you get to hand feed the fish! Great fun and very safe! However, when you go to a Crocodile farm in Darwin, THIS is how the feed the crocodiles ........
I would not like this to be the last thing I get to see!
We had to keep telling ourselves that this was a crocodile farm, not Australia Zoo. They breed crocodiles here for their skins and meat, so it's not pretty and sanitized like Australia Zoo ...there are crocodiles, crocodiles and more crocodiles ..........fancy jumping in the middle of this??????
We really liked Darwin. This probably had a lot to do with the fact that we had been landlocked in katherine in the mango sheds for around a month! It was so nice just to stroll the streets, shop at Mindle markets, go to a decent shopping centre! Swim in a swimming pool, relax, all those wonderful touristy type things. We enjoyed the World War II history of Darwin and the displays at the Museum were fascinating. Warren had been in Darwin for a year and left the night before Cyclone Tracey hit, so it was an interesting time for him, trying to find familiar landmarks after more than 35 years and realising that most of them had probably been blown away.Darwin's port was really interesting ..................we left when the sky turned THIS colour!
Yep, "the Wet" is well and truly on the way!
Yep, "the Wet" is well and truly on the way! Ever seen an oil rig high and dry? we hadn't - it was enormous. the photo below does not do it justice, we would have been fascinated to see them actually towing it out to sea again. It was in port for repairs.
Down the road from Darwin is Litchfield National Park - an amazing area which we really enjoyed visiting. We swam at Wangi Falls - yes, my husband and I paddled across that vast expanse of water to swim under the falls, I was happy there were lots of other people around, so the crocodiles would have a choice of who they would eat first. We both used the grand-kid's noodles - we could have sold them! We carted them from Melbourne to here, just for this one day, and it was really worthwhile, as we were able to stay under the falls for as long as we liked without getting knackered, while others swam across and were too tired to stay for long! So many people commented that they were a great idea! There was a sign there explaining how they monitor the crocodiles and remove any saltwater ones - Warren steered me past this sign very quickly. I must admit I was happy to reach dry land once more, and was a bit nervous each time I saw bubbles coming up from below, but the swim under the falls was so worth it! Just feeling the force of that water pouring down on top of us was something I will remember forever.
The sign says it all!
We had a lovely time at Buley Waterhole - no crocs here!
We thought we'd seen big termite mounds until we got here - these are just massive! Here I am doing my tourist act! This is a cathedral termite mound.
And these are magnetic termite mounds - (built by magnetic termites). The build them to face north-south - it looks like a cemetery full of headstones. The Territory sure is a very different part of Australia!
Yes I know it's ages since we did the blog, and we were going to do it while we were doing the second lot of mango packing (remember the photo of the outside washing machine?) Well, 30 ks out of Katherine the internet coverage was not good, so we just could not upload photos. We are now in Broome ( a bloody long way from Melbourne!!!), and coverage is great again. So here we are, and we will do another update next week, with our photos from Kakadu and Katherine Gorge. This area is a photographer's delight!
Down the road from Darwin is Litchfield National Park - an amazing area which we really enjoyed visiting. We swam at Wangi Falls - yes, my husband and I paddled across that vast expanse of water to swim under the falls, I was happy there were lots of other people around, so the crocodiles would have a choice of who they would eat first. We both used the grand-kid's noodles - we could have sold them! We carted them from Melbourne to here, just for this one day, and it was really worthwhile, as we were able to stay under the falls for as long as we liked without getting knackered, while others swam across and were too tired to stay for long! So many people commented that they were a great idea! There was a sign there explaining how they monitor the crocodiles and remove any saltwater ones - Warren steered me past this sign very quickly. I must admit I was happy to reach dry land once more, and was a bit nervous each time I saw bubbles coming up from below, but the swim under the falls was so worth it! Just feeling the force of that water pouring down on top of us was something I will remember forever.
The sign says it all! 
We had a lovely time at Buley Waterhole - no crocs here!
We thought we'd seen big termite mounds until we got here - these are just massive! Here I am doing my tourist act! This is a cathedral termite mound.
And these are magnetic termite mounds - (built by magnetic termites). The build them to face north-south - it looks like a cemetery full of headstones. The Territory sure is a very different part of Australia!
Yes I know it's ages since we did the blog, and we were going to do it while we were doing the second lot of mango packing (remember the photo of the outside washing machine?) Well, 30 ks out of Katherine the internet coverage was not good, so we just could not upload photos. We are now in Broome ( a bloody long way from Melbourne!!!), and coverage is great again. So here we are, and we will do another update next week, with our photos from Kakadu and Katherine Gorge. This area is a photographer's delight!
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