Mackenzie: Today we got up and went to the farm and saw horses and buffalo there are crocs there too. We went back to the caravan and played for a while then we went to the pool and played chasey on dads back. Then we had dinner, I had a toasted sandwich with eggs and cheese and home made ice cream.
Today we went out to Mt Bundy Station, this was originally a 1.2 million acre station but is now only 20,000 acres. This section is opened up for tourists, caravan & camping. They also have safari tents set up over looking the river, most crocodiles that have been caught and relocated to the croc farms & attractions come out of Adelaide River so we were sure to keep our distance. It was a lovely place and we met a few people who come for months at a time, saying the owners are such lovely people making it a pleasure to stay there. There is horses roaming freely and a little pony, there is also Nigel the bull and some water buffalo. When we drove in and parked up we looked over at their beautiful pool, it took a moment but then we noticed the pool gate was being propped open by a bin, there didn't seem to be any kids around so it seemed to be safe, taking a second look, the pool gate was standing there on its own, the pool fence was gone! We were laughing so much, when a man came over to us we asked about the gate and he said, "well the bin is there to hold the gate open cos it kept blowing shut" The fence and pool shed hiding all the filters had all blown away in a terrible storm and the gate was all that remained. We spent a while walking around the property, it was really well maintained. We came back to the park for lunch and a swim. There has been no one in the pool so Dan and the kids have been playing chasey games in the pool and seriously Dan is the noisiest out of the 3 of them. The kids have loved it, a lot of the pools there has been grey nomads reading and relaxing so the kids have had to try not be boisterous so the last few days has been good for them to let off some steam. We went across to the pub tonight to have a meal, the buffet was on again tonight, there is so much food to chose from and everything is homemade including the desserts & ice creams. For kids to eat at the buffet the price is according to their age, so a 10 year old is $10 or a 5 year old is $5, what a great idea because even as an adult an all you can eat sounds great but you can only physically eat so much. Tonight we decided to have sweets, which doesn't sound too amazing but we never really eat sweets so it was different for us. We shared a homemade apple pie that came with homemade ice cream, banana & vanilla, it was delicious. The kids had another look at Charlie the buffalo from Croc Dundee and even more desperate to watch it now, surprisingly no where in town sells the dvd, lots of other touristy things but not the movie, the general store who hires movies, the pub or the BP, all saying that they really should get it in though. Dan googled some you tube clips for them to watch so we will look in Katherine if they stock it.
The pool gate being propped open by the bin
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