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Published: July 13th 2018
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Day 15 - Jabiru
An early start today for the boys. Paul, Cohen, Xavier and I booked a fishing charter on the Yellow Waters wetlands in the middle of Kakadu. Now the main reason for this is that on Xavier’s bucket list was to catch a Barramundi and this was his chance. We left home at 5.30am to join a 6.45 am charter. How lucky were we. We were the only ones on the boat. The fishing was smack bang in the middle of Kakadu wetlands known as Yellow Water. The vessel was a small 8 seat flat bottomed boat set up especially for fishing. As we took off the sun was showing itself but the one thing that struck us was the teaming birdlife. The wetlands seemed to be alive. We saw so many ducks we lost count. There were Jabiru’s, eagles, ducks galore, buffalo and untold number of crocodiles. Now our captain seemed to be driving deeper and deeper into the wetlands to a point where we were barely floating. Now on every side of the boat we were surrounded by crocodiles. I am not exaggerating. Our Captain advised that the crocodiles are hanging around because there are
a lot of Barramundi in the water. Well we caught about 10 fish in a very short period of time. Xavier got his wish and caught 3 Barramundi but my grandson Cohen won the day with the first and biggest fish of the morning. We did all this fishing with all these crocs surrounding us. All I can say is that we would last about a minute if we fell off that boat. I don’t even want to think about that. We weren’t even allowed to wash our hands in the water as these crocs could grab our arms and rip them off. OMG OMG and OMG.
On our return we found the ladies at a local park and waterway making sure they kept their distance from the water.
We all then headed off to Cahill’s crossing to check out this famous crossing called the most dangerous water crossing in the NT. Now I didn’t really think it could be that dangerous but when we got there the tide was high and about to turn. Well there were crocs everywhere. I remembered the Captain’s comment earlier in the day and noted a number of people fishing from the
bank. Obviously there were fish around and these crocs knew it. The water over the bitumen road was 600mm deep. We had all sorts of vehicles crossing. One actually had to stop because a croc decided to cross in front of their vehicle. If your vehicle was washed off the road then the crocs are waiting for you. I am getting heart palpitations just thinking of the risk (by the way there were two cars off the side of the road in the water. They had been washed away last wet season). Wow. Xavier didn’t fish cause he left his rods at the camp. We will be back. Headed back to camp having seen too many crocodiles today. Just another quiet day at the office. Haha
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