Territory Wildlife Park revisited

We revisited the Territory Wildlife Park near Berry Springs today - being residents of Darwin we applied for and received a pass that allows us free entrance to the Park (and the Alice Springs Desert Park as well) for a year, after which we can apply for another.
The first time we went it was not the school holidays so we had the park virtually to ourselves today was slightly different as there were over 250 other children on site!
As we had been before we just went to a couple of our favourite exhibits - the nocturnal house and the aquarium.
Xanthe was in charge of the camera again and this time struggled a bit with taking pictures through the glass - although she also took some great shots as well.
You can take an open bus round to the exhibits during which the driver gives a running commentary on various things that you can see. Today one of the guides answered one of the questions we had been meaning to ask - namely what the purple flowered bush was that you see commonly on the road verges, it is called the Turkey Bush..

(picture from google)

This plant is a natural antiseptic, insect repellent and makes good firewood even in the wet!

A fascinating and useful plant.

The exhibits always have something new to show and today was no exception, hat took our fancy were the black and white morph of the false anemone fish..

The orange morph shown in the top photo is quite widely distributed across northern Australia but the black and white morph is found solely in the Darwin area!

One of the other stars is the freshwater sawfish that was resting on the roof of the glass tunnel in the main aquarium - it always seems to be smiling!