Darwin – Cruising the outer region

What a spectacular day cruising along the mighty Adelaide River with these huge prehistoric creatures jumping up at you. Many of these saltwater crocs showed off their battle scars with missing limbs and parts of their noses ripped off, all part of their territory wars. Some of the same crocs were still there from 22 years ago when I first cruised this river, now been fattened up by many old rotting lamb chops. If you look closely, you can see in the photos too that Matt was also showing off his battle scars with the caravan annex slab.

It was then onto the Windows on the Wetlands, which is an information centre perched on Beatrice Hill, overlooking the Adelaide River floodplains. The kids were able to experience fun interactive displays on the ecological processes that occur in the Top End wetlands.

To top off our day before the short tropical storm, we travelled to Fogg Dam which is a bird watchers paradise (the kind with feathers). So much bird life and it was great to see the Jabiru in its natural home as the top of the food chain. Having these present meant that you had a thriving eco system.