We headed out to Timber Creek which is a nice stop over between Kununurra and Katherine...where we stayed here for 2 nights...
Timber Creek is situated on the doorstep of the Gregory National Park and is home to about 70 people....mostly aboriginal....Timber Creek is the traditional land of the Ngaliwurra Aboriginal people, who provided early European settlers with valuable bush knowledge and acted as guides for the local police. A police station was first established in Timber Creek in 1898. Initially just a hut and a goat yard, the dwellings were upgraded to iron and steel in 1908 and this structure has been reopened as the Timber Creek Police Station Museum.
Fishing is one of Timber Creek's biggest drawcards. The beautiful Victoria River, running through deep valleys and gorges, is one of the Northern Territory's most scenic places to catch barramundi....but of course we still have not got around to catching one yet...
The back drop of the park is the Victoria River and the trees are full of BATs!!!! squaking all day :(
The park management feed the crocodiles every day at 5pm off a man-made bridge across the river.... and we had a close encounter once again with these fearsome creatures...5 of them turned up once they smelt the meat being offered...
And of course every where we go we see the Kites...These birds in the NT are like pigeons in London Square they are everywhere
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