Day 341 - Timber Creek, NT

Drove 285kms west today and stopped in Timber Creek.  Another warm one, 37 degrees which is 4 degrees above average!  Certainly having a hot winter in this part of the world.  Thank goodness for air conditioning!  Don’t know how those without manage.  Along the Victoria Highway we saw some beautiful scenery – we are definitely in the north west.  The colours are so Kimberleyish with deep reds, browns and oranges against the blue sky.   The Victoria River runs parallel to the highway.  We stopped in Timber Creek which is 187kms from the WA border.  The caravan park is amazingly green and it is wonderful to have a green grassed site after the dusty sites we have had recently. Amazing how small things make your day.  The river runs behind us and has lots of freshwater crocodiles.  For a town of only 70 people it has two caravan parks, a pub and little supermarket.  Very very expensive supermarket.  The attraction here is the river and the Gregory National Park which I would liked to have spent sometime exploring but only here for the night and too hot to venture too far.  The National Park is good for barramundi fishing. The caravan park has a very invited cool swimming pool and we spent some time there while the van cooled down.  At 5pm the caravan park next door feed the freshies with lumps of meat hanging of a rope so we went to have a look at that.  There would have been 4 or 5 crocs hanging around to be fed.  They didn’t jump out of the water like the salties quite placid really.  On the other side of the river there is bat colony and I reckon there were thousands of bats and we had obviously disturbed them as quite a few were flying around which I think it unusual in the daylight.  So noisy as well.  Saw some boab trees.  As we are crossing the border into WA tomorrow and have to go through quarantine and it is a big no no to fruit and veges we are eating all our veges and fruit tonight.  I actually gave some to the info centre here as the school cooks meals for the indigenous kids every day and happy to take fruit and veges from travellers.  It is a beautiful still balmy night so going outside to make the most of it.  Has the best shower I have had for ages, hot water, lots of pressure and a dry dry area!  For a park in the middle of nowhere it is tops!