31st august, darwin. Litchfield national park, jumping crocs.

So had to get up at 6:30am today. boooooooo. was it worth it.

So i was told the bus picked 6:50. then i found out the bus give that time to everyone he picks up, so the bus got to me about 7:15. not bad really, but i could of spent more time in bed. dam the ozzies.

Took a bus drive out to Adelaide river, where i got on a little ferry. they took us down the river not very far. and we came accross some croc's. the tour women, put some chops on a fishing rod and dipped them in the water. wow they must know what this is about, a croc came straight up out of nowhere. the tour guide teases the croc to jump out the water, makes the croc do it about 3 times before she give the chop to the croc.

this went on for about 40mins with different crocs. apparently they only give one chop to each croc each day. God knows who they know which is which, but i guess if you look at them day in and out you can tell the differeance. Mind you the first croc only had 1 eye so thats not hard to tell. most of them where females. Although we did come accross one male croc they called him NT. no idea why. he was about 9foot long. bloody big, but the guide did say they have been known to grow up to 8 metres. yes fucking 8 metres. glad i didn't see one of them.

So crocs were pretty cool, there was some bird of prey around, which the guide feed on the way back. i actually got some pretty cool in flight pics. (as above. ) there was about 40 of them around the boat. pretty dangrous aswell we were told. but hey ho we just feed crocs so how cares.

there were pretty impressive we got to see how quick the crocs were and they can jump, over half there body length out of the water.

Next we dropped two people of at croc world !!! thought was was quite strange. anyway we kept driving and had some dinner in a little cafe place in the middle of nowhere. i had a buffalo burger. wanted to have the croc burger but didn't want to pay and not like it. shame i will try one. just like china i will try some things out, watch this space.

So the buffalo burger, dam it was the best burger i have had in a long time, maybe ever. no hold that are sausage and egg Mcmuffins burgers. well i won't put them in the same catagory. so the best burger i have ever had. mmm i can taste it now. yummy.

So then down through Litchfield national park, we went to 2 waterfalls that we could swim at, they were Florence & wangi & falls. not bad, nothing spectatular. i mean the places there were in was, but the actually waterfalls are not that big, well not that much water going through them, i was told this is the dry season so, in the wet season they really gush. ok so with that in mind there were pretty cool. The scenerie around them was amazing i must admit. and how flat is australia, you can see as far as the eye can see, in some of the look out spots. yes i was in a mountain area because of the waterfalls but you know what i mean !!!! don't you ????

next we went to tolmer falls which we were aloud to swim at, you just see it from a distance, this waterfall is in a canyon and so could only see it froma distance, still really nice to see. great views.

next was the magnetic termite mounds and normal termite mounds. they were just mounds, some are pretty impressive, well over 2 metres, but just lumps of dirt to me and you. still i suppose when you think a little termite, well yes lots of termites make them, its pretty cool.

The magnetic termites look different and for some reason they face north, south, which i read Scientist can't tell why. which i think maybe bull because, hey they are pretty smart, why not.

Maybe i should study them and find out, Next time next year rodney i could be a millionare !!! lol

so that was the day really. was nice and productive and good to get back to doing things. I am writing this in the evening, and i don't think i will do much it is 9:14pm and i have to get up early again tomorrow to get my train to alice springs. then yeah i can't wait camping out in the outback at ayres rock and sleeping under the stars.

So i have a day off in between doing that, so will let you know what the trains are like. i don't think they will be as good as china, but lets hope so.

G'day and goodnight peep's. :)