Thursday:)

We were on the road at 8:15!!!!!! Thats pretty fast!!!!
Our first port of call was........
Six Mile water-hole. There are soooooo many water holes, lagoons, lakes and rivers that after a while they start looking the same, so I'll do my best to get the names right:)


So peaceful.........





A very strange flower we came across......


Some bird.......(sorry I don't know what its called)


The water from another angle......


Catfish Waterhole.......


More...........


Black cockatoo's.........


We stopped off at a random water hole, for morning tea, and as we were there a family of wild pigs walked past.......


A Herron.........


A dunno lake.......


This place is called 'old favourite'


If you look closely...... This is our First Wild Crocodile!!!!!! It was awesome!!!!



We stopped at Kalpowar Crossing for lunch, where there was a fun water crossing.


Steve got to do this one.... The next ones MINE!!!!! Haha


A fossil that we found at our lunch spot.......


Something else 'little' that we found at our lunch spot........ It actually was a small fresh water crocodile we just have a good zoom:)


They also had a VERY COLD fresh water shower at Kalpowar - all part of the adventure.....it took a while to thaw out:)


An old homestead that we stopped at.......called Breeza.......


A 100 year old Mango tree......( this is what a REAL mango tree looks like Dad lol)


Random Kids waiting on the side of the road for a shower........


Yup they're wet!!!!.......


Kade's idea of a shower......when you've wet your head it's the same as a shower right??? Haha


Look I'm in a photo!!!! As well as a huge cathedral termite mound....... And Kade looking his most spazzy:)


Whoops we needed some recovery on our way to an AWESOME camp site - result? We camped on this side of the creek.......lol


The kids built a dam in the creek, and yes we checked for crocodiles
Mum...... Lol

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Cooktown:)

On the road at 8:50...... That's a great time:) not too early:)


An awesome spider web that caught the sunshine while we had breakfast.......

Our first port of call was Cooktown!


Steve looks more like his Mum then I thought.......


There was a musical ship in town.......


And the token cannon.......every town seems to have one......


The story goes that the town sent a 'wire' to the town of Brisbane in 1885 to ask for arms, ammunition and a competent officer to take charge of them, because they were left unprotected from the threat of Russian invasion. They sent a whole 3 cannonballs, a cannon, 2 rifles and 1 officer! Wahoo!!! Don't go over board!!! Lol





The foreshore.......





Old boat on the slipway...... Steve took the photo's in cooktown, so they are of different things then what i would.....:)


Captain Cook ran his ship aground on the Barrier Reef in 1770 hence the name 'Cooktown' he (and Joseph Banks) stood on top of Grassy Hill and surveyed the predicament that they were in, because they were run aground on the reef and there were lots of sand bars, so they didn't know how they were going to get out........


A cool tank that they had lying around......


Parts of the old jetty.......


Gotta go out on the jetty if there's one......


A compass up on Grassy Hill......


Views from Grassy Hill.......








The actual lighthouse........

The last lighthouse keeper died in 1918, he was only 58 years old and was survived by his wife and seven children......


Statue commemorating the first kangaroo seen by a white man.....


We found some horns for the front of our car.......


We stopped for lunch at Isabella Falls.......





From there we moved on to Lakefield National Park - our first stop was at Lake Emma - which is a day area - no camping.





Lake Emma had a large number of Water Lilly's on the water..... They were beautiful.....





One up close.......
It was a very big temptation for the boys to play near the water after coming from a beach yesterday......so we had to keep a close eye on them....


Onto Horseshoe Lagoon......


More beautiful flowers.....


Pig footprint.... They made a big mess on the shoreline.....
When we were leaving Horseshoe Lagoon we came across a long neck tortoise walking along the track!





Smiling for the camera ......lol


One of our many water crossings......


Tiny frogs that the kids found next to the river......





The old Laura Homestead.......


The old Blitz truck (old army truck) at the homestead.....


Off with his head.... Shana 'chopping' Kades head off on the old chopping block in the meat room......


Awesome cathedral termite mound near our campsite for the night.....


Our peaceful campsite.......


A really tall tree next to our camp.....


Dad and Mum's camp on the left, Brad and Michelle's on the right......



Shana sending smoke signals.....lol

Thats all for today......

Lots of love the Barramundi's xx

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