We had a really long day yesterday, went out early to the Anbangbang billabong, lots of birds and waterlillies, and warnings of crocodiles by the walking track, so I was pretty careful. It has been so hot 37 to 38 degrees most of the time during the day and not much cooler at night.Then we went to see the start of the Mahbilil aboriginal festival at Jabiru, lots of stalls and lovely art and 'stuff' I came away with another small basket but it had almost all the colours of the dyes they use on the pandanus, made by a very old lady I was told, a very special little basket, and a print of a long necked tortoise done in a special print workshop by a student at the school.
We then headed down to Katherine, a long dry smokey trip with the vegetation changing as well as the rocks.
Finally found our way to the Nitimuk chalets, in the campground airconditioned and fine for what we want and the steak we had from the kiosk by the poolside was the best we have had. So tired we fell into bed early and were up relatively early this morning to look at the Katherine river and have a short but hot and rough walk, only about an hour.
tonight we are going on the river cruise with a meal.
we had a very acceptable lunch ande have crashed!The wallaby was by our cabin this morning, there are lots of them around, the snake is a black headed python which was in the information center.Leaf litter and ant hills.
Double click to enlarge, sorry P too many photos to put up individually.
4 comments:
It's a great feeling to flop into bed with exhaustion after a long exciting day. Your day looks really wonderful. Envious of your visit to the aboriginal festival. I enjoyed the photos especially of the tall figures.
Great pics, Penny.
Looks as though you're having a marvelous time!
Those figures in the tripods are lovely.
I like the figures of the aboriginals the best but they were all good :)
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