15th June 2014 Keep River National Park

Leaving Kununarra today,  its down to coles for some last minute supplies.
Had a long talk to Liza, I am not sure when I will be in phone range again, I do miss her.
We travelled to The Keep River National Park, which is only 3 kms over the border from WA.
We arrived at the ranger station around lunch time, there is a nice billabong there, cockatoo bilabong, we took our fruit and went for a walk, there was quite a number of people who were with a tour group there,  but it was still lovely.
There were a lot of herons and rainbow bee eaters, and water lilies everywhere, huge purple and some white ones, I wish I could grow them that good in my pond.
As we were walking back to the car Merv almost stepped on a snake, I saw it just in time, but because he was so close it was frightened and tried to have a bit of a go at Merv, it wasn't a big snake, someone said later that it wasn't a venomous one, but a snake is a snake, we treat them all with respect and leave them alone.
We travelled to the first camp ground, I am not going to try to spell the name of the camp, it is an aboriginal name, I can't say it let alone spell it.
The camps are all set out, each one has a fire place, there are eco toilets and 2 places in the park that you can get drinking water.
After we set up we decided to walk the trail that goes up into the range that adjoins the park.
The trail was a good one, stoney but no large rocks that had to be climbed over, the veiws were amazing, it was like a little Bungle Bungles only better, greenery everywhere with the trees full of the sounds of birds.
With this it made me not be cautious enough, looking about everywhere and not where I was putting my feet, my turn to go base over apex, headlong onto rocks, it rattles every bone in the body as you get older, after a little swearing under my breath I managed to get up with help from Merv, one knee didn't want to work very well but I had no choice, as AJ says, eat a bowl of cement and toughen up, walking helped keep the stiffness out a bit.
By the time we got back I was glad to sit down with the leg up, right one is pretty swollen,  left one bruised but nothing broken.
When you are out in these areas it definitely pays to keep your wits about you.