Final Destination

I finally made it to Darwin, my last place in Australia.
And this will probably be my last post on this blog from here, I'm flying back to good old Germany on the 23th of August.
Since last time Martin and I went up all the way along the Kimberlies (where we sadly couldn't have a closer look due to 4WD roads only...)to the Northern Territory.
Katherine Gorge was our first stop and a really beautiful one!!! We again hired a kajak and went along the Kathrine River for one day! The scenery was really nice and we had a breath-taking view of the gorge!!
After that we went on through the Kakadu NP, which was a bit disappointing (long distances for more or less nothing and a lot of roads only for 4WD) and after that we got stucked in the Litchfield NP.
Heaps of beautiful waterfalls and you can swim everywhere, which isn't possible everywhere up here. There are quite a few places where you can easily end up as a snack for crocodiles...
The little pixel on the second picture is me standing underneath the waterfall in the Katherine Gorge and the 6th pic is showing Martin sitting in the 'spa' at the Wangi Falls in Litchfield NP!! =)
The 4th one is showing one of these huge termit mounts, which are spread all over NT and northern WA! It's amaying what these little animals are able to build in (in this case) 50 years!!
The other thing which is unique for the region around the Kimberlies are 'boabs'. There is only one type here in Australie, one in Africa and six types in Madagasca. I thing in Germany we use the african name for it, Baobab. They are getting very old and big and somehow they remind me of the "Treebeard" and his friends in Lord Of The Rings...
I'm in Darwin now, doing things like tax-back stuff, spending money, ... and preparing for being in Germany soon.
I'm looking forward to see many of you again in a couple of weeks!!
Cheers, Martina

Karijini & Broome

Hi everybody!
Finally I managed to get out of Exmouth and now I'm on my way (together with Martin and his 'tank') up to Darwin, the last destination of my trip through Australia.
First we went to the Karijini NP and it was one of the most beautiful ones I've seen so far. We climbed through all the gorges and the views were amazing!! The rock formations were just stunning and we had great days in there. Bur after leaving the NP we had to clean the whole car, everything was red and dusty!!!
Port Hedland was very disappointing so we left immediately to Broome. It's a nice town and we did a little bit of shopping (after we lacked any shops in Exmouth for almost 4 month you really get excited when you do your first step into Woolies again =)...), watched saltwater crocodiles during feeding and went for a kajak trip along the coastline.
We are going further norht today, relaxing on a restarea and recuperating from so much civilisation in Broome.

Hi everyone!!
Back again with a few more pictures. This time I managed to get a bit more coloured ones, therefor again a lionfish especially for MaPa!!
I took most of these pictures at the "Navy Pier" here in Exmouth, one of the 10 best divespots in the world!!!
It's not that much coral around there but heaps of fish!! Reefsharks, lionfish, Potatocods, muray eels, shrimps, octopus, heaps of schools of fish, Wobbegongsharks, Nudibranches, ... It was amazing!!
Beside that, my housemate has got a boat and we are going out quite often to go freediving at the Murion Islands and the westreef. At one of these trips, I got the picture of the "spotted Eagle-ray", third picture.
Enjoy yourself!!
Cheers, Martina