I began my healthy adventures in 1972 traveling all over the world by bike. Today I am 69 years old and still going strong. It is never to late to live a healthy active life and be your own healthy adventurer.
Then there they were, the ones we were most excited about to see: crocodiles. This was a good time to see them sun bathing on the shores. I discerned two kinds, the smaller freshwater crocodiles and the larger and more aggressive sea crocodiles. Yes, they actually are a threat at ocean beaches. Two days earlier, in a museum, I had a chance to see the largest crocodile ever caught. It was 6 m (18 f) long. Ironically, it had drowned having become entangled in tree roots. The guide slowed the boat down when we came upon “crocs”. At times we got as close as 10 m before they rushed, occasionally with a grunt, into the safety of the water.
For the first 50 km after leaving Kakadu National Park little changed. But now, as I came closer to urbanization, the usual bush was intermittently replaced by mango, banana and other fruit orchards. The following night was my last to spend in the great Australian outdoors. At 9:00 the next morning, after biking 3,500 km (2,200 miles) I reached my destination, the northern coast of Australia. Later I used pencil and calculator and figured that I averaged 170 km (110.5 miles) daily. Now, it was time to celebrate. I was at the Esplanade, the prominent seafront of the city of Darwin, named after Charles Darwin, the father of the evolution concept. Should I award myself and stay in one of the glitzy hotels?
Till then, peace, joy, and health,
Hans
