Saturday, Howards Springs,

This last weekend we did some adventuring, Saturday we went to a place called Howard Springs and it is the most interesting springs i have ever been to, to make it a better visit they have damned the springs to make a small lake, you could see the water bubbling to the surface, it was really large plume and quite amazing: The bird life was very good, there were white ibis' and some medium egrets, a pied cormorant and lots of bee-eaters, the most amazing colours, swooping all over the place picking off the mosquitos that were everywhere.

The amazing bee-eaters, mostly eating mosquitos




They have some fish here that can live in esturine areas and freshwater, they are called Barramundi and they can grow just huge, like over a metre long and folks were feeding them with little fish, my little girl was screaming with delight to see the big fish coming all the way in to take the little fish from peoples hands with a huge plop of water that shot out of their mouths.

Huge Barramundi Fish in the lake, honest it is me




We also saw a snake in the water, it was about 1.5 metres long and it was so interesting to see it hunting naturally, we took a long walk around the park and they had some huge mosquios, which is actually not bad as you could see them flying around you and they were so slow compared to the ones in Costa Rica, it was easy to kill them all, but we had to keep moving to stop them overshelming us. we had a snack and then went to the local town of Palmerston, we then stopped to watch Kung-Fu Panda, it was a pretty funny film and then we went to the Indian night at Mindal beach, it was meant to be a cultural event but it was a food and cheap clothes market, the cultural part was 5 ugly indain men dancing away on the stage, I dont call that cultural. Tomorrow Litchfield National Park.