Day 380 | Hann River crossing: no crocs in evidence here
83 km | zzOz total: 10,623 km
A day for the animals, they seemed to be everywhere.
Lakefield National Park is somewhat reminiscent of Kakadu: low lying, there’s plenty of waterholes left from the rainy season, most with big blooming water lilies in ‘em, plenty of water birds: Little egrets, some black faced storks, a bustard, and most interesting the Sarus Crane, a relative of the Brolga but with more red on the bonce and neck, red legs not black, making the same elephant stampede noises, there were 2 groups of 3 just hanging around small waterholes.
Dingo popped up on a regular basis, morning, noon, ie, while I was eating lunch one trotted down the road nearby, and evening, 7 in all.
Another large reptile, a brown snake, large, sunning itself between the rocks as I went to get a closer look at the third Freshwater crocodile for the day. The croc opened its mouth for a full dental inspection when I approached it closely.
A big lumbering goanna that spotted me and ran across the road flat to the ground.
A few solitary rainbow bee eaters, a very attractive bird, hundreds of parrots, mostly light green with orange under the wings, will have to check it out, brightly coloured galahs, a giant white Osprey, Magpie geese, Azure winged kookaburras, well, you get the picture.
Suddenly immense numbers of animals after the comparative desert of the deep Wet Rainforest.