This is another morning after blog due to a visit last night from a girl,  lady in mid thirties, who is undertaking a bicycle ride from Darwin to Cairns over less than 3 weeks and then to hitchhike to Sydney to fly home to Utercht. This will be the end of  a nine month journey starting in Hong Kong and South East Asia covering around 15,000 kms. Big ride!
Next an explanation ......when we don't have coverage I do the blog in 'notes on my iPad' then when I get coverage I copy and paste it into the blog. The issue there is that on the blog the latest post is on top and in notes it is on the bottom and I have only just registered that fact.......brains trust! In future I will sort that and have it all in the correct order.
Now a comment about the Northern Territory. I have always pictured, in my mind, the NT as a semi barren place and it is not. So far we have been passing through green forest, not the tropical sort that you see in Qld or the tall trees that one sees in SW WA but rather nice green countryside which may change a bit as we proceed southto Central Australia.
My morning walk confirmed a pretty river but no other features. The river however has algae which does spoil it a bit. There a quite a lot of trees on the ground all full of termites, in fact they sort of look like the termites caused the fall. Our first stop was at the historical Mataranka homestead and for me dip in the thermal pool and a walk in the tropical forest there. This part of the Roper River is very attractive and surrounded the forest. During the night we heard wild donkeys but saw no sign of them during the day.
Heading south to Daly Waters for the night we passed a number of the WWII sites, of which there are a large number in the NT. We did stop at a couple. Only problem is that most were hard to find, despite the signage, and poorly maintained. More about Daly Waters tonight.