It was then to Woolies for a quick shop and to Howard Springs in Darwin to drop the van at the Big 4 before heading off to Mary River to go on a houseboat for the night.
When we arrived at the houseboat the owner told us that we probably wouldn't see any crocodiles because the water is still abit hot for them to be out in the middle of the day. We were a little disappointed. We had been to told that the Marry River had the largest amount of crocodiles in the area.
The scenery was amazing with water lillies and birds everywhere. I said to everyone do you reckon if I was to swim to the shore which was approx. 30 meters would I make it before getting eaten by crocodile. I was convinced that I would make it as there were no crocodiles around. Wasn't I completely wrong as soon as we stopped for the night and the sun was going down the crocodiles came out of nowhere. At one point we could see 8 crocodiles and a 5m croc was lying in the water with its nose to the back of the boat, they are that quiet that you have no idea that they are there.
We had eagles swooping down into the water to pickup bread that the kids had thrown in. Then we saw a snake swimming thru the water and it was heading our way. We thought it had gone but then Cooper felt something on his foot while he was fishing and it was the snake, he quickly kicked it off and it wound itself thru the bars of the rail and Michael had to get a broom and flick it away. It was alot of excitement but I'm just glad that no one got hurt.
The bugs were bad if you put any lights on so we only had a small lantern and we lathered ourselves in that much bushman that when I put my legs together they would stick together, it was very funny but felt really disgusting.
We didn't sleep much that night I think we were all to excited with the possibilities of what was around. We got up during the night a few times and spotted crocs and then woke up early and watched an amazing sunrise. The birds that were flying in their flocks was unbelievable, some consisted of hundreds and hundreds of birds.
Michael caught two fish in the morning and put the bucket over the side of the boat to collect some water and a 3m croc that had been watching us all morning got alittle excited and started to swim over. He put the bucket in again to see what it would do and it swam really quickly on the surface to the back of the boat and was sitting there watching us, next minute Stan thru his line out and the croc took his loure we were all laughing our heads off as we couldn't believe what we were seeing. The croc took the loure and went under and then resurfaced a few meters away. It then got free from the loure and it shot up in the air. It was awesome to see.
This was the most exciting 24 hours that we have had so far!!
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