Day 46: Katherine (Day 1)
Today we headed back north of Katherine to Edith Falls. The kids and John jumped into the bottom pool while I went for a walk up to Bemang Lookout to see the middle and upper pools. When I got back to the bottom pool everyone was out. Olivia was cold so had gone to change but the boys were standing on the edge of the pool looking into a tree. It turned out when they were swimming a few minutes earlier a green tree snake had "swum" across from the far shore straight towards John. Once John realised what it was he moved to the side to let it pass before it slithered out of the water and up a nearby tree. It hung around for a bit so we all got to have a look at it. Not long after we saw another one moving across the water a bit further out.
After all that excitement I headed into the pool for a swim, while John headed out to the waterfall at the other end of the pool. The kids had set themselves up a picnic in the sun to warm up again. When John got back he went up to Bemang Lookout as well before we all headed back to camp for the 3:30pm animal feeding at the farm stay.
The previous night we saw a few of the animals on the farm we are staying at but today we got to find out how many different types there are. We started the feeding tour with the cows, followed by the goats, horse and donkeys. We also got to pet the very cute 3 week old baby goats. Next stop was the emus, where the owner put the pellets into his mouth and let the emus eat out of his mouth. No one else was game to give that a go so opted to keep the pellets in our hands instead. From here we went over to the water buffaloes, pigs (including piglets) and a saltwater crocodile. Then we got to see all of the smaller animals they have, including, sugar gliders, frill neck lizards, several other lizards, snakes, a fresh water crocodile, rabbits and ducks. At the very end of the tour the kids could line up to hold a snake. Olivia jumped into line whereas Theo was happy to watch.
Theo finished off his evening with another game of cricket while Olivia started making lots of friendship bracelets as she is keen to start up a store at our next caravan park.
