Nine Days in the Top End

[cowboy_from_hell 2,390]

Good video on the hike. I loved how dunny kept saying how great it is be alive and it's better then being in a office. Sometimes a few footy players can come across like they don't care about the unique oppurtunity they have. In Dunn's case I think he gets it.

[autocol 448]

I frickin' LOVE Lynden Dunn. He's a legend. His body looks like a killing machine this year, I hope he can cement a spot in the side.

[Whispering_Jack 31,129]

The AFL website has an interesting rundown on how the various clubs have been going about their preseasons - http://m.afl.com.au/news/2012-12-15/aflcomaus-preseason-snapshots'>AFL.com.au's club by club pre-season snapshots

Here's the write-up on the Demons:-

MELBOURNE

Melbourne spent nine days at Robertson Army Barracks in Darwin training in heat and humidity. While research has shown there are physiological benefits to be gained from training in the heat, the club was happy to make the trip on the basis that it would test the players mentally as much as physically. The club hit Darwin's hottest spell in 30 years in the opening week and most players considered the first 20 minutes of the first training session as the hardest running they have done in their lives. While the living quarters at the barracks were sparse, the facilities were everything an elite team requires with a fully equipped gymnasium, pool, meeting rooms and a choice of football grounds to train on or practice walk throughs. The club also spent the penultimate day of the camp on a six hour hike through Kakadu National Park. – Peter Ryan

The USA was a popular destination but there were clubs going everywhere and the Cats who are surprisingly being heavily backed as a premiership favourite went to Falls Creek.

[BangkokDemon 96]

some days a re just a tad warm for scarves !!

Living in Bangkok and rarely getting to games, I need to close all the doors and windows and power up the air con if I want to wear it...

[pitmaster 3,589]

Don't know of any high pools in Kakadu.

Water usually falls.

Never seen a waterrise in my life.

So you haven't been?

Kakadu has many escarpments and successive waterfalls with rockpools at bottom. In the upper escarpments the pools are clear of crocs but as you follow the cliff falls you get into croc territory.

Having said that, I was swimming in one pool looking down on another maybe 100 metres below that was also supposed to croc free and was told by a ranger that a little freshie was found there four months after it was declared clear. So I guess you're right to be cautious and stay only with the uppermost swimming holes.

[Whispering_Jack 31,129]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2012/12/15/315938_ntsport.html'>Top End Trip Toughens Dees

[monoccular 17,642]

Don't know of any high pools in Kakadu.

Water usually falls.

Never seen a waterrise in my life.

errrrr....the higher pools at Kakadu are there because the water hasn't come down stream yet :-))

It has to have been up there before it falls, otherwise there would be no waterfalls and ho water in 'the high country'!

You don't honestly believe that all water is at sea level, do you??

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No croc is going to get to the top of this waterfall!

Edited December 15, 2012 by monoccular

[monoccular 17,642]

Top End Trip Toughens Dees

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Caro will be right onto this on Monday - the final piece of incontrovertible evidence in her jigsaw puzzle

[daisycutter 29,891]

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Caro will be right onto this on Monday - the final piece of incontrovertible evidence in her jigsaw puzzle

damn, the smoking gun. and we were so close to pulling it off

[beelzebub 23,390]

theres definitely a sense of humour ( or irony ) about that pic...lol

also a sense of warning !!

[McQueen 17,867]

theres definitely a sense of humour ( or irony ) about that pic...lol

also a sense of warning !!

I agree with the humour.

Most likely ordered by Connolly with a threat that if they didn't do it there'd be heads roll.