Darwin to Katherine

Well we returned from Kakadu to Darwin, here we are all set up, Jenny & John are visiting us before they head of the Kakadu & beyond.

Another visit to the Mindil Beach Market with our picnic on the grass.

Water is everywhere in Darwin, this lovely fountain in the Botanic Gardens. It was the best feature of the gardens

The USA Navy in town again for resupply

Darwin's Beer Can Regatta on Mindil Beach. This one only just made it to the beach

USA Hospital Ships entry

Government House is just such a pretty house & the oldest european building still standing, it was damaged in the WW11 & Tracy

Bogonvilla hedge in front of the house

Fanny Bay goal building

John, Jenny & Ian at ruins in the centre of town

The wave pool looked fun

We had fun with visiting Darwin with John & Jenny.

The Rainbow Bee Eaters where around the van every evening catching flies & insects.

We left Darwin for Litchfield on 19th August, the next day we went to the Termite Mounds & The Lost City

Magnetic Termite Mounds, aline North / South & only in this site.

This is a huge Cathredral Termite Mound, that's Ian in front of it.

The drive into the Lost City was 4X4 only & quite fun, not a had drive just a bit soft & narrow.

the week before we went to Litchfield there where fires in the area, this is the result, termite mounds in the blacken bush.

The Lost City is lots of sand stone rocks in unusual stacks, quite spooky.

This is the only water buffelow that we saw & he was in a fenced yard.

Butterfly in the Butterfly Farm, he is just beautiful.

Another day we went to Tolmer Falls

This is Florence Falls, these are great to see.

From Florence Falls we went onto Buley Rockhole for a swim

Marilyn having a nice swim @ Buley

The last day we went to Wangi Falls, you can swim here as well when the park people have removed the Crocodiles.

On Tuesday we moved onto Adelaide River, this Great Bower Bird has made its nest on the edge of the road opposite of van.

We went for a day drive to Daly River Crossing, we had a picnic lunch in the ground of the Pub.

The Daly River Crossing, old & new

This is the crossing that Dad helped build in 1942. A newer one is beside the old one. We could not walk over it due to the croc's in the river.

snowflake crossing on the new crossing

The weather in Adelaide River was very hot & humid, the last afternoon there we went to the War Cemetery.

On Friday it was off to Katherine for a short stay, but more about that on the next issue of Ian & Marilyn's travels. We are on our way back to Melbourne with 3 months to do it in. Just for your interest so far this year we have travelled just over 19,000 km, we have had to replace tyres, driving lights & suspension stuff & power steering hoses on the truck, the RCD in the van, the black ants got our TV. But we are still smiling.