Darwin Day 4

Back to the Doctor today for Chelsea, this time just with Mum so the rest of us did not have to wait for them. I had to go to the supermarket, and you guessed it, I was in the queue to pay when the message came that they were out and ready to be picked up!

It turned out that Chels did not have pneumonia, but rather a chest infection that was causing the cough. This did not get us out of the medicine every six hours so we still had to get up through the night. Great!!

As we got in and out fairly quickly, we headed off to the Jumping crocodile cruise on the Adelaide River, everyone was excited about this except for Cathy who was concerned about what might happen.

We pulled up to an old tin shed that doubled for a booking office and I almost had to cancel the cruise because of the following sign!



When it was time to get on board, we headed for a larger boat that was tied to the dock, we then walked through that boat onto a smaller single level boat that was much more appealing to some of us as we thought we would get closer to the action. And we did!

We, except for Cathy, had a good time watching the crocodiles jumping out of the water to feed on the buffalo they were being teased with. We got to see Hannibal the Cannibal, a very large croc jump and then a range of other crocs that followed the boat. The guide often made comments about the security and safety of the boat and all that this did was to compound Cathy’s fears and made the rest of us laugh.




We even fed a ‘white breasted sea eagle’, sorry a ‘white bellied sea eagle to be politically correct’ that came down and took the food with its claws and took it away to eat.

Cathy was very happy to get her feet back on shore, but others of us could have taken even more croc viewing.



After a quick visit to the ‘Windows to the Wetlands’, a display that showed the area and gave a summary of the surroundings, we headed off to Berry Springs for yet another swim.

Josh was very excited as he got to snorkel for the first time and after a little while of getting used to the breathing process, became quite good at it. Initially Chels, who was also snorkelling for the first time, and I swam around the Springs looking at the fish under the water. We followed the current from the actual spring and down through a few deeper water holes. After a little while when Josh got used to it, he joined us and saw under water for the first time.

You could see some quite big fish that looked like you could almost touch them. Even though we tried, we missed every time. Did not stop us trying though! Of course Josh did not want to get out when it was time to go but wanted to keep snorkelling around.

This capped off what was a very enjoyable day before returning back to Darwin and bed.