For we fortunately had no jet lag (no wonder because at home we went at 4 a.m. to bed) the Litchfield National Park had to endure our visit. Initially Katja wanted to go swimming, but restrained from it after she has seen how the crocodile free area was officially defined. Unfortunately I had no other bait to, attract a croc. By the way: Only the Salties (salt water crocodiles, who also are in fresh waters) are dangerous. The Freshies (fresh water crocs) attack only if someone annoys them too much.

Then we visited the termites. The Magnetic Termites are strange guys and build their mounds only on the North-South axis. That’s why the area where they live looks like a cemetery. Those termites already helped the ancient Egyptians to place the pyramides in relation to magnetic fields.

The other are the Cathedral Termites who build huge (up to 6 meters high) mounds. It’s not well known, but this termites are going to populate the Mars soon. And the hills are in reality launching silos for their interstellar rockets. Believe it or not be a chicken. The third species are the Sexually Oriented Termites. Their mounds contains usually Penis-like sculptures:

After the termites we enjoyed a bath below the Florence Falls.

And because we can never be swollen enough, we moved to the Buley Rockholes. This is a cascade of water holes inside a stream. At first glance this sounds not exciting, but some guys from Darwin showed me that the small water holes are about 4 m deep. And thus deep enough to jump down from a 7 m tree.

So I made my day jumping all the time into water holes (and no, this sign next to the tree is surely not a prohibition of jumping from the tree into the rock hole – but if it was one – I didn’t read it, because I didn’t want to break a rule deliberately, ).

Tomorrow we’ll visit the crocodiles. And maybe a butcher sells me a bait, which is more willing than Katja.

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