At the caravan park in Batchelor we got um quite early to watch the bird feeding at 7:30 am. We saw plenty of cockatoos, parrots and other birds. They were already waiting in the surrounding trees and when the seeds and liquid was put into the feeding bowls all the birds rushed to them. Quite a spectacle.
After breakfast we hit the road in the direction to Darwin but with a short detour to the Adelaide River where we wanted to join a Jumping Crocodile Tour. We were lucky that the 1 pm tour was not fully booked and that they even took the smaller and faster boat due to the small number of passengers.
The one hour tour was really great, we saw about five jumping crocodiles, some other ones just swimming in the water and also a very big one lying on the sandbank in the grass. It was about fifty years old and really huge. The tour guide held a rod with a piece of meat over the water and then a nearby crocodile approached to catch the meat. The tour guide quickly moved the rod with the meat as soon as the crocodile tried to catch it and always moved the rod a bit higher in order to make the crocodile jump. They are lazy guys and so they try to get the meat with least effort. Finally they jumped out of the water nearly two meters. Pretty crazy.
The guide also had some food for the birds which flew onto his hand (protected by a glove) to grab it. When tbe rest was dumped into the water the birds all rushed there to grab it.
