Sure it's a caravan park of sorts but it was actually a nice place to stay.
There's a huge grassed area for unpowered camping (that's us) several shady powered sites and some nice-looking cabins on the side of the hill.
There's a restaurant with a nice deck, a swimming pool and wallabies.
It fronts the Mary River so is very popular with fisher-type people.
There are a couple of little walks and we rode our bikes around, a much better bike ride than a walk.
Along the river we heard several "SPLASHES" - possible crocs?
The next day we stopped off to have a look at the Adelaide River, just near the jumping croc cruises and at the exact spot where a fisherman was taken by a croc the next day!
We didn't feel inclined to go on a jumping croc cruise...
A bit further along we called in at The Window on the Wetlands, which is set on the only hill around and has great displays explaining the different aspects of wetlands and their importance.
You can sit up the top and have a cuppa - we did!
Another great place is Fogg Dam which had been recommended to us.
This was built a while ago to provide irrigation for rice growing, but it has turned into an amazing wetland.
We saw so many water birds there - ibis and spoonbills and egrets and others that I can never remember.
You can't walk across the dam due to croc danger, but you can drive and a guy said he saw a freshwater croc just next to the road - but we didn't.
Anyway it is a very pretty spot.
Then - heigh-ho! it's off to Darwin we go.......
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