Day 135 – 1st July 2011
Beatrice Hill Rest Area, NT (65km Southeast of Darwin)
Today we left Darwin with a first stop at Howard Springs Nature Park where we went for a short walk through the rainforest adjacent to the spring-fed pool (1.5km – 30min). Nothing spectacular to be seen so we quickly continued on to a town with the unlikely name of Humpty Doo where we had lunch and a great photo opportunity of a Boxing Crocodile. In the afternoon we visited Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, a dam built in the mid 1950s to provide irrigation for the Humpty Doo Rice Project, but these days the dam is a bird watchers delight with plenty of birds to be seen from Pandanus Lookout. Afterwards we set up camp at a rest area along the Arnhem Highway.
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| Howard Springs Nature Park |
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| Howard Springs Nature Park Walk |
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| Humpty Doo Boxing Crocodile |
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| Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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Jabiru (centre) - these birds mate for life
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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Magpie Gease (bums up heads down)
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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Lots of wildlife
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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more wildlife
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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Bird - ?
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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Crocodile trap
Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve |
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| Sunset at Beatrice Hill Rest area |
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