Saturday, September 13, 2008

Day 5

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We spent the day at Litchfield National Park.

The photo below shows Cheryl standing near a termite mound. This type is known as the cathedral mound.A different type of mound; these are the meridian mounds. The broad sides face east-west, and the thin ends are all aligned north-south. This is believed to aid in keeping the mounds at a constant temperature for the termites.A field of these termite mounds looks very much like a cemetery.We visited 3 waterfalls: Florence, Tolmer and Wangi. By now, however, I can't really tell which is which.Cheryl set off on a monsoon forest walk. Too hot and humid for me, though.I just loitered around; wondering why the screwpine is so called......caught the tour bus driver resting...
...saw a green ants' nest. These green abdomens of these ants are edible.Looks like I annoyed this picnicking family.
Yellow flowers of the kapok tree - the fibres of which were used to fill mattresses back when I was a kid.Cheryl returned from her walk.Finally, an emu with a buffalo and a pig in the background.

1 comment:

luke said...

Awesome pics Arthur,

Luke