Taj 7

Taj

 

At Lake Argyle we went on a cruise and we fed fish, drank a lot of softdrink, saw heaps of wallaroos and drank heaps of softdrink, we saw crocodiles and drank more softdrink.  At the end of the cruise we go to jump off the roof of the boat.  I was the first one to jump.  We met some French kids who were too scared to jump off but we talked them in to it and by the end we were all jumping in to the water.

Next stop was Pussy Cat Flats.  Ryley and I played on the playground a lot because we made up a game.  AT night when I went to have my shower I found lots of frogs in the cubicle that I was showering in.  It was awesome.  We even got to play a round of golf at the caravan park and I lost lots of golf balls.

We moved on to Kakadu which is where I had my 10^th birthday.  I got lots of new presents.  Some of my presents were Super Smash Bros, Dominoes, Matchbox cars, mother of pearl shell, clothes and PJ’s.  I had a great birthday, we spent the day playing in the pool and went to the aboriginal information centre.  We went on two magnificent walks.  They were magnificent because they had a lot of rock art and brilliant views.  I really like reading all the dreamtime stories as we walk around.  We also went to Cahill’s crossing to see some crocs but there weren’t any.  Instead we decided to do some fishing, I didn’t catch any but Tamsyn and Ryley did.

AT Darwin Dad booked us in to another house and it even had toys, so I played with all the toys that were there.  There was also a dog there called Pippa and I got to play with her.  Ryley was really sick and Tamsyn didn’t want to play football with me so I played football with Pippa.

 We went to two different water parks.  One of them had a racing slide and I won a lot of races on it on the first day but on the second day everyone kept beating me.

We went to Crocosuarus Cove and there were heaps of big crocodiles and you even got to fish for baby salt water crocs.  They were so funny because whenever they took your meat they would death role.  They also had barramundi in one of their water tanks and they were massive.  When they did fish feeding they fed the two cheeky stingrays first.  They were cheeky because whenever the keepers would drop a fish they would sweep in and eat it up.  There was a new worker there who had to feed the fish and he wasn’t very good, he kept dropping the fish so the rays just hung out near him all the time.  He was really scared, it was really funny.  I even got to hold a baby crocodile, his name was fluffy, he wasn’t very fluffy though.  They also had a reptile house that was massive. There were a lot of monitors in it. 

We also went to a deckchair cinema in Darwin.  It’s an outdoor cinema with just rows of deckchairs.  We watched Paper planes.  I loved the movie, I thought it was pretty funny.  We also got some softdrinks there.  When the movie ended we went home and went straight to bed.

 

We went to the Mindil beach night market, it has heaps of food and street performers.  One of the performances was a drummer and a man playing four didgeridoos at once, they were called MD and they were awesome.  There was also any aboriginal man singing a song and I thought he sounded really cool so I gave him some money.  There was a fire performer, he was really good, he could even breath fire and all the tricks that he could do were amazing.  At the end of the night I got to ride on a mechanical bull and it was the best fun.  We also ate a lot of food and watched the sunset on Mindil bay.

We left Darwin and headed not too far away at Tumbling Waters.  Ryley and I played heaps of footy but I missed playing with Pippa the dog.  There was a Jazz and Blues festival and Tamsyn even bought one of the CD’s off the singer but I didn’t.  The caravan Park had 10 pet freshwater crocs that we got to feed.

 

At night we went to the rodeo but I was feeling a little bit sick.  Even though I was feeling sick it was still awesome.  My favourite was the bucking Shetlands that the little boys had to ride.  One of the ponies wouldn’t even leave the chute when the gates opened but when he finally did come out he went all psycho and bucked the kid into next week.  It was hilarious.

On the next day we drove towards Daly Waters but we stopped on the way at Mataranka Springs for a refreshing swim.  At Daly waters I made two friends in the pub and we played pool all night, their names were Ryan and James.  I only won one game of pool though, it was against Ryan. 

 

The next day we made it all the way to Alice Springs which is a nice place but full of troubled people.  We got didgeridoo lesson, Ryley was really good at it and I was OK.  Mum made us go to all the museums again, the first one was an old school, it was pretty cool with the old desks and old writing.

  We also went to the old goal.  Ryley and I were locking everyone else in the goal, it was pretty funny.  We drove up to ANZAC Hill where I learnt about the war in Afghanistan.

 

As part of my birthday present we did a nocturnal zoo tour that was completely awesome.  I hope to do it again.  We saw Bilbies, echidnas, bandicoots, bettongs, stick nest rats and Mala which are now extinct in the wild.  We went back to the same zoo during the daylight the next day to see all the birds of prey.  My favourite was boobook owl.

Next we’re off to Uluru.