These are the photos taken on our trip from Adelaide River to Nhulunbuy.
10th – 15th August 2019
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The covered entrance to the Jumping Crocodiles Cruise. No, they’re not real.
Adelaide River
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Our friends Pat and Dick on the Jumping Croc tour on the Adelaide River.
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Embarking on our Jumping Crocodile cruise on the Adelaide River. Kathy and Keith on the right of pic.
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Idyllic day. Inviting river … but not for swimming! Adelaide River
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Cruising alongside the boat. Adelaide River
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And up he goes. Note the meat on the line which you’ll see just at the top of the background tree line. Adelaide River
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Moments before success. (Thanks to Jan for the photo)
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This one’s on the shore – I hope we don’t get stuck in the mud. Can’t see me helping to push us off. Adelaide River
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Wedge tailed eagles wheeling and diving for fish thrown from the boat. Rarely do they get caught by a croc. Adelaide River
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Coming in to land, ignored by the spoonbills.
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Beautiful water birds.
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The pool at Leliyn. That’s me with the grey hair, enyoying my swim. In the distance you can just see where the Edith River cascades down into the pool.
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Beginning the Central Arnhem Highway. Mainoru Store is our destination today.
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“Airing-down” at Beswick as we’re about to start dirt roads. Keith talking to Steve Orr while Paul checks his tyre pressures.
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Having a break at Beswick. Jan, Kathy, me and Julie
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Central Arnhem Highway. A few corrugations here.
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A break for morning tea overlooking “Jurassic Park”.
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Looking down into the valley across Arnhem Land at a place known as Jurassic Park.
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Feral donkeys, lots of feral donkeys in Arnhem Land.
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Feral buffalo are prolific in Arnhem Land. Hunting safaris are common and there’s also a meat trade in buffalo.
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We arrive at Mainoru Store.
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The convoy having just arrived at Mainoru store.
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I enjoyed the walk to the Mainoru spring. It’s quite beautiful.
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The fresh water spring that never runs dry beside the camping ground at Mainoru.
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Apparently large barramundi have been sited in the Mainoru spring. Paul was keen to see if it’s true – he never did find out.
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The very beautiful Mainoru spring.
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Driving the Central Arnhem Rd north of Mainoru Store. Note the tape on the windscreen – placed over a crack that occured on the way up to Darwin. Also note distance from vehicle we’re following, avoiding the dust.
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Will we or won’t we? Goyder River
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Keith, walking the crossing over the Goyder R before we all drove it.
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Exiting the Goyder River bridge bypass road.
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Central Arnhem Road. Predominantly one-lane road, with wide shoulders for passing.
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Apparently the biggest termite mound in Arnhem Land.
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Up and over the sanddunes on our drive around Cape Arnhem and its beaches. (That’s the back of a vehicle with a slide-on in front of us, not a house!)
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Approaching one of the beaches at Cape Arnhem.
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A view of our ‘lunch time’ beach from the top of the dune.
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So beautiful. Driving around Cape Arnhem and surrounding beaches was a highlight of the trip
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Hi! What do you think of this for a perfect beach? Cape Arnhem.
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Delightful beaches, beautiful weather. Good times. Cape Arnhem
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Lunch time and it’s a sausage sizzle on the beach. Fun!
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Off to explore another beach of soft, white sand. Cape Arnhem
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Up and over the dunes. Cape Arnhem
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Oysters, oysters, big fat juicy oysters! Yes I did sample some of these, with one eye looking out for a croc. Cape Arnhem.
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Cape Arnhem
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Trepang, or sea cucumber, or beche de mer. This is what the Macassans were harvesting from this coastline all those years ago.
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Such interesting weathering on these cliff edges to the beach. Cape Arnhem
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This is the beach where our group did a clean-up We ‘over-filled’ 9 of those bags with rubbish that has drifted ashore here. Cape Arnhem
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Here’s a ghost net, just waiting to entangle a turtle causing it a slow and lingering death. Cape Arnhem
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Awww. Look what I found on the beach clean-up. This little fellow was heading the wrong direction. I put her at the water’s edge and told her I’d be back in 20 years when she’s next back here laying her own eggs.
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We’ve got ourselves a con-voy! Cape Arnhem
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Lots of these delightful little jellyfish on the beach. The jelly-bit of it would have been about the diameter of a golf ball. Cape Arnhem
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We stopped on this beach for a while to pick up the rubbish. Between us wefilled 9 big bags The beach looked great when we’d finished.
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Some of the larrikitj, with others in the background in the Buku Art Centre, Yirrakala.
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A few of the magnificent larrikitj on display in the Buku Art Centre, Yirrakala.
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Note the intricate work that is put into these larrikitj. They truly are a wonderful piece of art.
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A Donald Thompson photograph taken in 1936. These tall, strong, healthy men are preparing a ḻarrakitj for the remaining bones of a clan member who had been interred (either in a shallow grave, or a burial platform) some time ago. The ḻarrakitj is painted with sacred designs of the deceased’s lineage.
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Nyapanyapa Yunupiŋu, quite a famous artist, at work on her latest creation. Look closely at the fine lines that form the picture. Buku Art Centre, Yirrakala.
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Highlighted in the middle of this photograph is one of the bark paintings (ie artwork done on a piece of bark). Exquisite! Buku Art Centre, Yirrakala
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A ‘dingo tree’. Haha. The bark from this eucalypt has been removed to use as the canvas for a painting.
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At Macassan Beach – just prior to walking around the rock display that celebrates the activities of the Macassan who visited this area annually since the mid-1700s until European settlement.
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The information board describing the stone installation that represents the dugout canoes. Macassan Beach
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One of the information signs telling the story of the stone installation which represents the fireplaces and fishtraps used. Macassan Beach
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Denise enjoying the little waterfall in Goanna Lagoon.
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A group of school boys having fun at Goanna Lagoon. Note the boy spear-fishing.
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We saw a lot of this beautiful flowering shrub. It’s known as turkey bush.
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A beautiful sunset taken from the Boat Club – bauxite processing and shipping structures in the background.