Ok, we’ve got the photo issue sorted out – as you can tell by David’s post below. Like I said in a previous post – I don’t know what all the fuss is about!
Back to the important stuff –
We left Darwin last Saturday and our first stop was a whole hour away – Mt Bundy Station, 3.5kms from Adelaide River township. We met up with Sharon and Barry, friends we met in Tamworth a couple of years ago. They were on their way to Darwin. Barry and Sharon have the same rig as we do and parked both vans under a huge tree and settled in for 3 nights R&R.
Mt Bundy Station is lovely, with lots of trees and shady areas and has plenty of room for caravans and tents, and also offers dorm style and cabin accommodation. It’s also very popular with tour groups, especially eco and safari type tours.
The station runs horse treks and has about 20 horses, as well as buffalo (including babies of both species) and a huge Brahman bull called Nigel who loves visitors feeding him bread and fruit and scratching him behind the ears, but he’s scared of the horses and in fact runs away from them!
There is a huge variety of birdlife in the area such as magpie geese, finches, cockatoos, rosellas, etc, as well as the farm birds – geese, ducks, peacocks.
We went into town a couple of times and visited the war memorial. Adelaide River was the last line of defence against the Japanese when they bombed Darwin during the Second World War, and the war memorial is a lovely tribute to those who died at that time – it’s really sad how young so many of them were.