​May 30 - June 1 The end of our stay in Darwin - this time round!

After a trip into town to check if there were any permits or passes we needed, we set off to travel the rest of the Darwin-Kakadu green triangle to get a bit more of a look at this fascinating piece of Australia; we did the Pine Creek-Darwin bit on the way up. First stop Humpty Doo - not much to see but it's quirky name and it has some interesting political links with protestors against uranium mining in the area and experimental food cropping. Now it's a small supplies stop between Darwin and Kakadu.

In the wet season the Wulna people lived in the melaleuca and used canoes to catch fish, turtles, snakes, geese, and croc eggs etc. this is turtle country!

And Fogg Dam - so many names that ring old bells in my mind. So we visited it to see what it was/is. It is absolutely beautiful. The dam was built to supply water for rice farming between there and Adelaide river - the project failed for a lot of reasons - but it has had a positive spin off for the wildlife. The whole area here looks so lush and ideal for growing BUT the extremes between wet and dry seasons, coupled with access, financial issues, thousands of 'crop eating' birds, etc etc makes growing food crops a bit risky. Hard to imagine isn't it? But they do grow mangoes in the region! Acres and acres of them along the road back into Darwin and south.

All creatures great and small. This beautiful little iridescent spider was less than a centimetre long. Gorgeous eh!

We took a short side trip in to Harrison Dam near Fogg Dam. There was little signage other than stuff about gun permits etc. What were we getting into - we kept our heads down! Got in a fair way and then hit squelchy mud so did a 3 point turn with the van - brilliant effort, thanks to Lindsay, and got out of there.

Speaks for itself! Good tucker.

Next stop a gorgeous wetlands information centre - Window on the Wetlands. It was fabulous. Set high on a hill and modelled on the wings of the brolga, it had lots of info and great displays and video footage plus spectacular views over the flood plains of the Adelaide river. We lingered as you do before heading back to the hwy.
The sun was getting a bit low so we stopped at Corriboree Park for the night.