After the Litchfield NP we visited the Butterfly Gorge in the Daily River Region.
Once again an awesome place that we had for our own.
What is that and who made it????
On our camp spot at the Olloo crossing we met Jo and Pete, two biologists that were doing studies for their PHDs. They were catching and examining crabs in NT to study influences and changes in the food web. They invited us to a yummy Indian dinner. Thank you again! We met them again a couple of days later. But this will come in one of the next posts. Then you will see also pics of them.
Pete showed us a cane toad and explained us that they are harmless to humans except you would eat them. The cane toads are another story of Australians and introduced animals. The cane toad was introduced 1935 in Queensland to eat the cane beetle in the sugar cane fields. But the cane toad eats also a lot of native animals and even worth every animal - birds, goannas, small crocodiles, etc. - that eats the cane toad will die because of it´s poisonousness. So this animal is a big plague in Australia and spread from Queensland to the Northern Territory and also to the north of Western Australia.
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