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Trip Start Mar 18, 2007
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Hello,

Phew, I feel like I have spent days catching up on the blog, so much has been going on.
Today we took a trip to Litchfield National Park with Wallaroo Eco Tours, and I have to say it is probably the best tour I have taken in Australia. This is partly due to the wonderful scenery and the spectacular jumping croc cruise (more on this in a sec), but mainly due to the fact that we had a brilliant guide called Louise who kept us entertained all day long with tales of crocs and her never ending knowledge of the area.

After stopping off at the Wallaroo base to meet and greet snappy, we headed off to the Adelaide River where a crocodile under 2m doesn't even count as a crocodile and they have over 2500 that do Big croc!
Big croc!
 ! This is the only river in the area where you can feed the crocs, so when we headed off in the boat they were keen to say hello. As I hope you can see from the pictures we were able to get up pretty close to some rather large ones, it was quite something.
Then it was off to explore Litchfield National Park, including some huge termite mounds and  nice swimming spots.

I'm afraid my vigour for typing is running out now as it has been non stop since a late 6am today, so I'll leave it there.
Next stop is Singapore, and the Asia/China leg that makes us almost 2/3rds through which I can hardly believe!

Bye for now.
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