Lizard Man's Travels

This site is a journal of my travels and other adventures while I shift from doing postdoctoral research on tree frog ecology in Darwin, Australia, to research on digestive physiology of lizards and bats in Sede Boqer, Israel. Enough friends have been asking me for regular updates on this journey, that I thought this would be the best forum to keeep everyone up to date (including me).

Monday, August 20, 2007

El Questro boat ride


El Questro boat ride
Originally uploaded by wandering lizard
On our first morning at El Questro, we hired a couple of boats to cruise up the Chamberlain gorge. Actually, we hired the little electric motors and a couple of car batteries - the boats were just waiting at the river. We divided into a guy's boat and a girl's boat, and headed upstream. the morning was beautiful - still, cool, sunny. The reflections off the water were amazing.

It wasn't until after we'd paid for the boats that we found out about the 4 meter saltwater crocodile that had taken up residence in the gorge. Apparently, that one was a replacement for a 6 meter croc that had been there earlier in the dry. We looked, but never saw either of these, which was a good thing - both would have been bigger than our boats, and those tiny little motors would never have outrun a big croc.

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