Our first little trip south

Having sorted the house as far as we can [update today is that our furniture will be with us the end of next week!!!] we headed off to the south to visit the Territory Wildlife Park.
What a great day out it was too - and being Territorians we get a pass that allows us to visit as many times as we want in the next 12 months for free - wot a bargain.
We started off at "the sand bar" which was a mini version of the freshwater river environment. The main event here was feeding the barimundi and whip rays, the latter just followed the keeper around and kept nudging him to be fed...

The barimundi where also entertaining sucking the fish like hoovers and making one heck of a splash and noise - a boom type sound.
We then moved on to the birds of prey area - they flew a couple of species but more interestingly had some rainbow lorrikeets and a red-tailed black cockatoo as well as a jabiru.
The undoubted highlight here though was Cameron holding a Rufous Owl..

The best bit though as far as I was concerned was the Aquarium. With the undoubted star of the whole park their Saltie. It was very much like an iceberg, from above looked quite small but underwater was massive

We also saw a spectacular saw fish but unfortunately it was swimming too fast to get any decent shots but worth looking them up online as they are cool.
The local art throughout the park was great, this croc was one of the best on show

On the drive back we stopped off to take the classic picture of termite mounds - there were far bigger ones but they were all off in the taller grass so we decided to give them a miss this time.

Tomorrow we sign the lease on the house and do a few other house keeping things so may not have much to update tomorrow.