Saturday 23rd July – Douglas Hot Springs to Perry's – 11118 Km
Morning eventually arrived and we were all relieved the night's noise was over. After another quick soak in the hot pool we were refreshed enough to pack up and move on. We headed up to Oolloo Crossing on the Daly River. The boys got the rods out and headed to the river bank. After I had refreshed the flask with hot water I headed down to hear that Richard and Helen and seen a barra, but the bad news was it was in a crocs mouth!! Hard to believe there we were finally in croc territory. Were hoping to get into Litchfield Park so turned back and headed West. Unfortunately discovered the south entrance into the park is still closed, the heavy rains this year have prevented the rangers from getting in and removing the crocs from the billabongs!! That was enough for me, not interested in 'trespassing'. Moved on to the Daly River Inn for lunch, not memorable, so we made our own lunch, crossed the river, first major river. We all watched out for crocs. Have parked ourselves at Perry's campsite on the banks of the Daly. Read 'high banks', crocs can't climb. It is beautiful, have all made ourselves comfortable and the boys have booked a dinghy for tomorrow and are now busy rigging up their rods in eager anticipation of the barra's they might catch tomorrow. The owner of this place was telling us about a memorable occasion in Mandurah when his mate pulled a 6ft octopus into the boat – there were a few 'entanglements', that's not quite the exact words, but I wont repeat them here. Looking forward to a peaceful night – anything will be peaceful after last night, none of us got much shut eye.
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