An informative Saturday morning

I attended an informative talk at the Northern Territory Library by author, researcher, Pauleen Cass on "Researching your Family History". She focuses on the social context of genealogy which brings a lot of colour to ones family tree.
Here is Pauleen with Robin Hempel, Reference Librarian at NTL.

A quick trip to Katherine

On Friday, my Tassie visitor, Ken and I drove down to Katherine for a short visit. I visited one of the two campuses CDU has there. I spoke with the campus manager, Vicki Williams
and other staff. This is Vicki in the Katherine campus Resource Room.

On Saturday morning we had a 4 hour cruise on the Gorge in Nitmiluk National Park.




We saw this freshwater crocodile resting. It was just over a couple of metres long.

One of many balmy evenings with Ken

Ken was escaping a Tasmanian winter, so we enjoyed a number of meals out, as well as some home cooked barbecues.

Enjoying the food and a "sooky white"


And another evening sipping a red in my courtyard after a barbecue meal.

Trip To Ubirr Rock

We spent a great Sunday morning, with some drama at Ubirr Rock.


After leaving the car park where I saw this Grevillea pteridifolia, very attractive orange bottle-brush like flowers

we climbed to the top of the escarpment and had a good view of the Kakadu Wetlands.







Note my lack of proper foot wear in this shot.

Once again, I was stupidly not wearing the correct footwear for the conditions and I took a dramatic tumble down the last few metres of the climb, with camera and lenses making a noise on the rocks, people screaming (not me as I knew I had done the wrong thing!!) I was lucky to get away with bruised toes, scrapped knees, wrist and feeling foolish! Even a pretty European backpacker offered first aid.


Also interesting to see this Magela Creek crossing. When I visited with Pauline and Karen earlier this year in March (see March Archive) it was flooded and closed to all traffic.

A Journey to Jabiru

A long trip out to Jabiru. It was quite a warm trip. We returned to Mamukala which we had seen in April 2005. This was a Wren I noticed on the walk in.

We checked into the LakeView Cabins.

The outside temperature registered 42 (at the least the sensor in my car said it was!) We then drove down to Cooinda, enjoyed a Yellow Waters cruise for a couple of hours.
Pied Heron

Jacana



A Jabiru (Xenorhynchus asiaticus) at Yellow Waters
Interesting to note that according to Hilary Thompson and Denise Goodfellow in "Common Birds of the Darwin Area", the name of this stork, Jabiru, (officially a Black-necked Stork), actually derives from Tupi, a South American Indian language, and should actually belong to a South American species of Stork.



There were hundreds of ducks gathering together at Yellow Waters.


Water Lily

And crocodiles basking in the sunset........



Ken thought that the cruise guide Michael and I shared the same bulky body mass but this photo proved him wrong


and then had a meal at the local hotel.

A birthday Party

Jayshree had a dinner party to celebrate her increasing age. Ken and I chatted to a mixed group of people from libraries and the Uni etc.
Ken, Jessie. Rod and Peter

Jayshree and Peter.

Afternoon at the Territory Wildlife Park

We then spent the afternoon at the Territory Wildlife Park, enjoying the Aquarium
, the Avairies,

and the Birds of Prey display.