Days 10 to Day 12

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It's 4:50 a.m. (or at least it was when I wrote the hard copy of this, it's now actually 11am but that doesn't sound as good!!) on Sunday 10th Oct and we're at darwin airport about to fly to Ayres Rock.

There is only one word to describe the last few days - spectacular!!!!

But it didn't start well, the flight from Bali was delayed, then delayed again. We arrived in Darwin at 5am and were being picked up for our tour at 7am!! So no sleep for us at all!!

Our first stop was Corroboree Billabong where we saw crocodiles, an amazing amount of birdlife including magpie geese, kite hawks, eagles and loads of others in all different shapes and sizes. I also modeled a new fashion in headwear - a water lily leaf!

Next we wnet to Ubirr to view the aboriginal rock art. The stories the art is telling are fascinating and the shade we sat in in while being told all the history also meant we were happy to site and listen for ages. The temperature was at least mid 30s with 100% humidity but despite the heat the 360 degree views at the top of Ubirr rock were fantastic.

On Friday there was more aboriginal culture, rock art, swimming in possibly croc infested waters and spectacular scenery. We finished the day sat round a camp fire with 100's of bats overhead flying around.

Yesterday we spent the morning at Katherine Gorge, wow - what a place!!! We cruised down the river and the sandstone rocks, different habitats, wildlife and peacefullness made it a totally beautiful place to be. We finished off the perfect morning with an aussie BBQ for lunch!

The afternoon was spent at Edith falls, again (and this may be getting boring but..) this place was fantastic. It's a big pool of water 150m accross, 16m deep with a water fall at the end and we spent a lot of time swimming and soaking up the atmosphere.

There were 10 of us in the group fior this tour, brilliant people, different nationalities, ages etc but we all got on really well. A brilliant 3 days!!!

Pictures to follow later.....

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Comments

[Linda Sims]

debbie -campfire?
You got Debbie round a camp fire? fantastic!!