Again, not my picture, but very possibly a termite mound that we saw in Litchfield NP. Can't find a PC that will let me put my pictures up from Kununurra and Darwin yet, but will keep trying.

On Thursday evening (after I last updated this) Emily and I went to the Mindil Beach sunset market with Judith, our Dutch roommate. The markets were really busy and when it was sunset the beach was absolutely packed with people. I have never seen so many people in one place in Australia before! It was crazy. The sunset was really good though, and there were so many stalls, food and otherwise. There were some good entertainers too, including a man cracking a whip a lot, and a guy playing four digeridoos at once while his mate played the drums - it sounded like rave music!

On Friday Ems and I got up early to go on a tour of Litchfield NP. The tour included a jumping crocodile cruise on Adelaide river, where they dangle meat over the edge of the boat and coax crocs to jump up and get it. It was incredible watching them jump up as they can't have been taking off from anything but water! But at the same time the staff with the meat were teasing the crocs and revving the engines and stuff to try and get them to jump, which is a bit cruel and also it's making them more aggressive which is not what anybody needs!

Litchfield NP was really good, but we spent a lot of time in the van as all the sights are quite far apart from each other. We stopped to look at some cathedral termite mounds (Emily ate some termites - she's crackers! Apparently they taste like pepper...) and went to Wangi falls, where some people went swimming. I did not, because we saw a big snake going in the water, that had a bat-shaped bulge halfway down its body. Tasty! We also saw a water monitor lizard climb out and have a bit of a sunbathe. I'll put the pictures up one day! Later we looked at Florence Falls which looked incredible, and we swam in Buley Holes too.

Our tour guide was hilarious and kept playing practical jokes on us - like picking up a snake and throwing it at us, only to reveal it was plastic. He also got the girls together for a group picture in the water and floated a (plastic) crocodile head past us - it gave me a fright but you should have heard Emily shriek!!!! But he encouraged us to explore a bit and showed us where to dive and where to stick our head behind a waterfall (which was scary and I didn't like it!). He also took us on an "adventure" through a long, narrow creek - only me and one other person went with him! I'm so glad I went because it's not something I would have done normally, and he showed us a St. Andrew's Cross spider and another water monitor. He then said we were in prime freshwater croc territory and we fell for that one too, and wouldn't move until he told us we had to go through it to get to the exit. It was so much fun!!!

Today Em, Judith and I went to Aquascene, which is a section of shoreline where members of the public can handfeed fish. They put out loads of bread and encourage people to stand knee-deep in the water holding bread, and the fish come and eat it. We saw and fed milkfish, catfish, diamond-scaled mullet, sting rays and diamond fish, and some other sort of ray, and I stood in the water and stroked the mullets, which was weird! Em and I then went up to East Point reserve to watch the sunset and look for wallabies, but we didn't see any. The sunset was beautiful though :)