We brave a very long walk to some aboriginal art sites today. It’s rather ironic that we travel around the world to see ancient cultures yet on our very own doorstep is a culture that existed 20,000 years before the Egyptian and Roman empires were even thought about. You can stand at sites and know countless generations have lived and thrived in this place eons before.

This country certainly reminds you about the basics of life, food, water and shelter. No shops here, all you can get is what you carried in, that includes water.

Given temperatures can reach 32 degrees in the cooler dry season it must be extremely challenging in the hot and humid wet season. Walking along bare rocky platforms along the river, which are like hot plates, makes for a convincing reason to regularly walk into the water to cool off.

Surprisingly the country supports plenty of wildlife. Dingoes are regular visitors to the camp at night and signs of quolls and other marsupials can be found in dusty tracks. Rainforest patches have plenty of interesting plants to keep one’s curiosity satisfied. There are ample reptiles to photograph many seemingly little concerned by our presence. If one knew if the fruit was safe to eat you could have an abundant food supply for a small group.

On the way home we stop at many art sites and waterholes. Little Mertens falls is a favorite. You can sit under the falls behind the falling water and look out, its pretty amazing. It’s surrounded by pandanus and rainforest species. It’s a very cool place to be on many levels.

Dinner comprised of plenty of cold drinks (thank science for inventing portable fridges) and soup, we were too tired to cook and slept like logs. Blue-wing kookaburras sunset raucous behavior the last noise we remember.