This morning Sarah slipped into our bed
at 2:30 in the morning – apparently to wish me a happy birthday. You can’t
argue with that one.
Once it was time to get up the girls made me a lovely breakfast with freshly baked 'Zopf', smarties and candles on top :-)
After a quick shopping in Katherine (Martin bought himself a saw since he only got a crafted picture as a present that Sarah had made for him) we made our way towards Pine Creek for Lunch. Just behind the town is a lake where once was an open cut gold mine. During its life they extracted more than 700,000 ounces of gold out of the rock at sometimes more than 10 oz / ton.
We drove on towards Kakadu National Park but stopped at a couple of amazingly big termite mounts.
At one point there was some back-burning going on just beside the road. It’s amazing to watch how these fires just burn the undergrowth and leave the trees completely unharmed.
We stopped for the night at Marry River Roadhouse just outside the National Park. Sarah was very happy as it has a pool and a couple of old bunk beds to climb on and even more happy when we discovered the two little emu chicks (Eric & Edwin, born 30. June)
