Day 12 Friday

Forgot to mention but in case you don’t know you can tap the photos to get them full screen size. Also for the detailed minded who are wondering where Day 9 went – nothing happened.

So after 10 days in Jabiru it’s time to move on. First up though we need to get to the library, which isn’t open, but we can sit outside and jump on their wifi. Now we are up to date for the time being as we won’t have any phone or wifi connection for the next 24 hours. We are heading down to Cooinda for the night and you can only get Telstra down there.
A few pics of the town for you, and one of our coffee spots before we hit the road. It’s only 50 kms so we take our time and manage to spot a Red Tailed Black Cockatoo on the way .
The park here has a nice bistro and restaurant but the pool is quite small and there is no cover. So it doesn’t quite compare to Jabiru but we are only here for the night.
In a couple of hours we are off for a two hour boat cruise, expecting to see more crocs of course but maybe some more bird life, and as it will be sunset we should get some good views.
I (Rhon) am suffering quite a bit from a heat rash, but found this solution on a poster of Indigenous medical plants this morning.  It says "for heat rash, take the root of an iron bark tree.  If you don’t have an axe, take a few young leaves and boil them up.  Let liquid cool and apply to rash". If only I knew what an iron bark tree looked like?
On the other hand I (Barry) remember that our guide yesterday pointed out a tree with yellow flowers which are very good for constipation. Can’t remember what that tree looks like either – wouldn’t want to get them mixed up.
Back from the Yellow Water boat cruise and boy what a fantastic experience. A nice slow meander across the wetlands with an excellent and entertaining guide. Spot the wildlife was the order of the day – the highlights were floating alongside a 4 metre croc for several minutes, and being right next
to a Jabiru as it picked its way along the lake bank. The water lilies were huge and apparently they are now using them to make clothing because of their water repellent properties.  Plenty of bird life which we had not seen before, barramundi jumping clean out of the water, crocs here there and everywhere, buffalo, pigs, brumbies, wallabies, and to top it all off a brilliant sunset.
Will post photos in a different post
Off to Katherine in the morning.