Well that was different.  First day in over a month I have not ridden the bike.

Got a phone call from the tour company early to apologise that the tour would have to a bit different than planned as the Hydro plant was not running today so there would not be enough water to get the boat up to the normal starting point near the dam.  Originally it was bus out to the dam and then cruise back to town.  Ending up being bus out the dam and nearly back into town to the first point upstream they could get us on the boat.

Not much the tour compamy could do but we still got the see got to go upstream as far as we could get.  Main difference was now that we were travelling upstream most of the time the trip towards the dam at which point the sun set and the trip back down was a high speead run at night as we were a hour and half later than normal getting back.

Still very good day.  Lake Arglye is huge and the statistics about its capacity and the water flow rate over spillway during the wet season are behind belief.   In most years, more water still flows the 100 km to the ocean than is retained by the lake.  Our tour boat captain used to be a commercial fisherman on the lake and as it so large is classified as an inland sea, the commercial fishing boats have to been rated the same as ocea going vessels.  He has been out in a storm with 4 metre waves. 

The cruise was mostly between cliffs that at times dropped straight into the water.  Also got some little rock wallabies that live on the cliff and a few fresh water crocs.  They are trying to keep the salt wate crocs out with measures down stream and none have been sighted for a few years but I will not be going swimming in the lake anytime soon with its five to seven thousand fresh water crocs.  Does not seem to to worry the local though.  Also to note a very bad thing, the cane toad has made it first appearance here this year and there is concern over its effect of the native animals here but only time will tell.

Off on my flight over the dam and the Bungle Bungles in the morning and then off towards Darwin on Friday.