Darwin Waterfront, to date

To see the rest of the planned wave pool, gardens etc being constructed on the re-claimed mangrove swamp at Darwin, go to,

www.waterfront.nt.gov.au

Crash on the Stuart Hwy

PHOTOS TAKEN BY NT Police.

A Toyota Land Cruiser towing a caravan and a Toyota HI-Lux ute towing a tandem trailer have collided about 16km South of Larrimah in NT, where the speed limit has been reduced to 130kmh. The accident was at about 12.40pm on Tuesday which closed the highway for some time.
The driver of the Land Cruiser was killed and his eight year old son critical.

Wild Passion Fruit, Mint, and Rosella.

A Dingo I came across, and two Jeanette got on the river bank

Last view, we are on our way

From Tourist Park to Mango Farm

Camp Kitchen becomes Mango Packing Factory

Daly River Crocs

A very wide Croc!

So green

Sunset Sunday

Thunderstorm Saturday

Dry Season, Fire!

A couple of days ago, nearby.

Ferral Cotton???????

Native Kapok

African Mahogany Seeds

THINGS THAT GROW. We went to visit Dick Perry and he has some “Cashew Trees” that are currently bearing fruit. In the photo are two different varieties. The strong fruit smell is hard to describe as is the taste of the beautiful juicy fruit. The Cashew nuts as shown on the base of the fruit is not edible until processed, and currently commercial Australian crops are sent overseas to be processed.
Our understanding is that the nuts are poisonous in their unprocessed state.
The African Mahogany Nuts are of special interest to us as hundreds of the golf ball or bigger sized nuts have fallen from quite high onto the roof of our caravan over recent months, generally late at night with a sound like instant devastation.
These trees are planted extensively around the Top End as they grow rapidly and provide dense shade, however they do on occasion drop limbs.
These nuts in the photo display the stages from round and hard to beginning to split, then the wide open nut, and at the point of dispersing the flat light seeds.
The Kapok trees are sometimes referred to as “Native Cotton” but as you can see they are not identical to cotton.
The photo of what appears to be genuine cotton is disturbing as it was taken on a secluded spot on the banks of the Daly River. If it is genuine crop type cotton, it is of note that the CSIRO have an “experimental” crop of cotton upstream from the location that the photo was taken??????? Escaping seeds perhaps???
Rubbish washed downstream is scattered further than a kilometre out from the banks of the Daly in some areas, and a recent bee hive was found to have been washed away from Katherine eight years ago!!!! Check a map, it is a long way.
Constant pressure from commercial interests to be allowed to cultivate or clear land on the banks of the Daly must be tempered with some of these facts about a special river that must flood on a regular schedule to continue to exist.
It is Dry Season, but we have now commenced the “Buildup” to the Wet Season with temperatures around 40 degrees C, and high uncomfortable humidity.
The Bureau of Meteorology regularly declares fire conditions of “Extreme to extreme”, which seems just right for the locals to get a good fire going.

Chashew Fruit & Nuts