From Fitzroy Crossing

FITZTROY RIVER  Yesterday we drove through to Fitzroy Crossing, bit of a milestone as we have now been on the road 78 weeks/18 months, where has the time gone? The caravan park we are at is on the river behind a lodge, heaps of vans and lovely grassy sites, makes a change from red dirt. The river floods and in parts can be up to 30kms wide, very hard to imagine.

GEIKIE GORGE is just 20kms out of town on a sealed road. The colours in the background give you an idea of how high the water gets in the wet season, up to 12 metres higher than now.

GEIKIE GORGE bit of a variety of colours. We did a boat cruise up the gorge and then a walk along the sandstone walls and sandy banks. Saw more freshwater crocodiles sunbaking, apparently there are sawfish and stingrays in the water that have adapted to the freshwater, we didn't spot any. There was one pelican fishing, first one spotted this season, wonder if he came from Lake Eyre.

JABIRU again the first one spotted this season, last time we saw them was up at Kakadu in the Northern Territory.