My schematic map shows it as the main route, the roads more to the west are possibly better maintained. But this is easy going.

We are now a tad baffled as to why they are also called black-necked storks as the neck is far from black - as so often happens with feathers in different light.

We performed our own risk assessment and walked as far as we could on the boardwalk.

Relatively early morning there are some lilies open. And a few seed heads. These are the lotus flowers we met in South East Asia and ate at Lake Li Yong in China.

They are very different to the white lilies in other lagoons in the park. Apart from the difference in flowers and seed heads the leaves stand proud of the water and follow the sun. We wonder if they have ocurred here naturally.

We are reminded of Lake Takern in Sweden.

They are difficult to picture in dense riverside growth.

However, the first thing I discovered was the water was flowing, and the second was that we are camped next to a small branch of the Normanby River. The main stream is impassable to us.

We tried in vain to follow the birds which occasionally flew from tree to tree.

A very leisurely half hour to circumnavigate.

A very different lagoon, with trees in the middle and few lilies. The bird life was well hidden.

We walked around this lagoon also, then home by 9am for a lazy day.

We spotted it first through the open door of the truck.

Wrens have very distinctive tail feathers. We've never really noticed the colour previously. In our bird book most female wrens have dark or bluish tail feathers. The re-backed wren has light coloured, much the same as the rest of its plumage.

We hope they will return.

Wrens, along with the majority of birds, are described as "sedentary". We have no idea of how extensive the area they normally occupy is. Unhelpful is the description of red-backed wren as "probably sedentary". Its also common.

We are successful with a little bit of paddling across the rocky bottom. It is these rocks which form a barrier to create the waterhole.

The lagoon would be either deep or shallow, there is no evidence of the light green colour which lilies seem to have on satellite pics.

Alas, its shallow. An almost non-existent pool. Something more resembling a roundabout with a tree in the middle than a heavily populated lagoon.

Not quite what we expected, but we enjoyed the walk, and not being eaten by crocs when crossing the river.

Its a forest kingfisher. We've seen many. We've admired their colours. But never quite seen in this light, and never seeing the beautiful irridescence and subtlety of different blues.

We wondered, as one does, who had put the tyre in the middle of the river, and for what end. Perhaps someone fishing used it as a seat, though a less likely fishing spot I can't imagine. Probably not part of an entertainment park for crocs!

We opened one of the orange fruits. Moist inside, segmented, we decided it was probably good eating, but we refrained.

We'll ask.

One opinion, from a passing visitor, was that it was quinine, but we don't know.