national parks

In the last 2 days we've been on two single-day tours of Kakadu adn Litchfield National Parks.

Kakadu was in the company of a lovely over-energised tour guide called Stu.
We went on a sweet river cruise to see th ewetlands - heaps of birds, plants water.. a few crocs, but one looked like a wind-up toy and th eother had been buried in the mud for over a week 'waiting for prey'. Honestly, he may as well have been dead or plastic, I coudlnt tell the difference.

Then We did somethign crazy as part of one of them and went up in one of those teeny weeny little planes you see hovering over waterfalls.
Mmm..
have a strong stomach or... somethign.
It was very drop and lift in spots and I decided to watch what was happenign but think about somethign entirely unrelated and pleasant instead...
JimJim Falls adn then Twin Falls. Very beautiful, currnetly unaccessible by road.

Currnetly reading Outback Heart by Joanne van Os. The wife of the man dubbed th eoriginal Croc Dundee.
She mentions a lot of what is said on tour and refers to places we'd been so it's the perfect book right now.

We were shown Aboriginal art and dream-time stories adn though I cna appreciate th eart, I dont particularly like it. Not to say I dislike it.. just.. well.. somethign.

Litchfield I enjoyed more. Possibly due to the novel encounter of coming face-to-face wiht a 5 1/2 m croc called Nero. He was beautiful and gentle as far as crocs go.

The afternoon was spent visiting watering holes. Wangi Falls is apparently known for it's waters of fertility so I avoided going anywhere near the water.
Boulders Rocks were a lovely lovely swim htough.
The Litchfield tour was wiht Louise and we chatte d the entire way back

Today was a day of markets and then reading and readsing...
Bob goes home tonihgt...