Photo voila

Here we go now with some pictures. Crossing fingers that this is going to work.

A beautiful swimming hole in Litchfield National Park, two hours from Darwin. This was the perfect way to cool off on a muggy Northern Territory day.

Me after my first day on the job at the concrete factory (looks more like I was working with Avian Flu-infected birds or something like that, doesn't it?)

A humungous termite mound in Litchfield National Park. There are gazillions of termites in the NT. In one field near this spot there were hundreds of other mounds. Really amazing to see.

The best for last: a big crocodile goes in for the "kill", snapping raw pork off the line. We saw about seven other crocs on the tour as well as endangered sea eagles.

An all-too-brief hello

My lack of blog posting over the last month is absolutely disgraceful. I know. But maybe you'll forgive me once you realize I've been working 55-60 hours per week and have had no internet access anywhere near home! It's been a struggle just to respond to emails, let alone getting all fancy in the blogosphere.

This is going to be short, even though I have a lot of things to tell you. I've seen dozens of lizards, eaten ridiculously fresh mangoes, swam beneath waterfalls and witnessed live crocodiles in a river. Australia's Northern Territory is sure different from the likes of Sydney or Brisbane. It's beautiful yet dangerous; civilized yet wild.

Here are a few pics. The first was from my first day on the job at the concrete factory, where I was responsible for dealing with the pigments used to die concrete blocks. Thankfully, I only had to do this for the first 3-4 days.

And now it's time for some croc action. These suckers are real, wild and will chomp your arm off. Fortunately you view them from a safe distance on the upper-deck of a riverboat. Pretty amazing to see their size and behaviour up close.

OK, and scrap the pics. I just went through the trouble of uploading a whole bunch and now Blogger won't let me post them here for some strange reason. It's always something. . . . Pics will be posted next time then, for sure!

I fly down to Sydney early Friday morning on a red-eye from Darwin. It feels neither like December or anything like Christmas with the current weather (sunny and +34 C . . . this is the lovely thing about Darwin. The weather is exactly the same every day: hot, sunny, with the chance of an afternoon or morning thunderstorm. Very predictable and such).

I must jet but another post, and the pics, coming soon.