On the road again!!
From Katherine our way was going back towards Darwin with the first stop in Adelaide River, a small town with some WWII history. The biggest attraction was Bundy Station were we stayed 2 nights and it was just lovely.
Wildlife and farm animals everywhere and the "kids" even saw a snake, and there was a swimming pool! How great can it be, cooling off in the pool, overlooking the farm!
We had a nice shady spot under the big trees....
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| Look at this tree, like Tarzan you could hang on the roots! |
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| Boots walking to heaven |
Never knew geese could sit in a tree haha!
Gee, did we had a good time here!......
We did a little tour and ended up at the war cemetery which was very well maintained.
And when we came back, Fred had a little job to do, making a new 12 volt plug for a light, with the assistance of Danny....
After leaving Bundy Station, we drove to Litchfield National Park and stayed at Wangi Falls. At the beginning of the park we stopped at the Magnetic Termite Mounds
Fred and I were here in Litchfield just 2 years ago so when you want to see some more pictures or want some more information I maybe forgot this time, you can always go back to the story of 02-11-2013.
Anyhow, as well as in Kakadu we had showers and toilets on the camp ground, these are not really free camps as you pay a fee for it but that doesn't matter as these facilities are of course great and has to be cleaned. Wangi falls was just $ 6,60 per person and it's an honesty box. So please people, when you go to these parks be honest and pay otherwise these accommodations will disappear one day.
The first night we had in mind to make a shashlik from chicken and some salad. We already thought something didn't smell very well but at first we thought it was the water coming out of the tank. At the time Fred had finished cutting the chicken into cubes we noticed it was the chicken. An hour work in a stinking hot caravan, no power so no aircon, all for nothing.
We checked the rest of the chicken, as we bought a lot in Katherine and it was all vacuum packed and not even near end of use date, but it was all rotten, we had to chuck 2 kilo chicken away. But there we had a problem; there are no bins in the park and there were signs to take your rubbish with you. We are staying another two nights so what do we do with 2 kilo rotten chicken?? You can't leave it out side and can't leave it in our bin in the caravan. Several suggestions passed and at the end we decided to leave it somewhere in the bush, of course without plastic package and nature will do the rest.
Anyhow what do we eat now? Luckily we had bought salmon for my birthdays planned champagne breakfast which will be in two days so I took that to make a salad and it tasted well.
Next morning the "kids" went for an early walk and saw a snake again near the falls on a platform.
From Wangi we made a tour, first to Tolmer Falls where we walked a loop from about 2 k's;
After Tolmer we went to Florence Falls
and Buley Rockholes. It was very hot and busy as it was in a weekend and it actually wasn't much fun at the falls but at the Buley Rockholes we had a great time, we had lunch and beer with us so didn't had something short.
We had planned to stay in Wangi falls with my birthday but because of the meat we had to throw away and the heat, we decided to leave Sunday morning 18th October and go back to Darwin, to our previous caravan park. There we can have champagne brunch in stead of brekkie.
Because we didn't want to throw more meat away if we kept it too long, we ate on my birthday what we still had in stead of going out for dinner which was the original plan.
On Monday the 19th the boys had a father and son day and I cleaned the caravan inside, Patricia started packing a bit. On Tuesday we went to the big shopping centre in Casuarine where Fred and I bought new supplies for our trip to Queensland. At night we had a lovely meal in Palmerston at the Palmerston Sports Club...very nice;
On Wednesday we had our last picnic together of course with bubbles,
Afterwards we cooled off in the swimming pool and the home goers had to pack their suit cases. Their flight was Thursday morning 10 minutes to nine so they had to be there at least seven o'clock so it was an early getting up.
Of course saying goodbye is always emotional so the tissues did their jobs. When they disappeared from our sight we drove off towards our empty accommodation but on our way back we also had to buy a new gas bottle as ours was empty.
We took off the same day as we had to be at the mechanics in Katherine early next morning. We went to the same caravan park we had been before the kids came, north bank caravan park, and the woman owner gave me a big hug as she recognised me. They are lovely people and although there are a lot permanents and the place looks like a museum, it is a very nice and relaxed place to be.
The "kids" are save back home and we are getting the hell out of here; so next;
Queensland HERE WE COME: (hope it cooler there)
Cheers!
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