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Djokovic we take all our mocking back! We have crossed the border into the Northern Territory and it is about 34 degrees. We can barely walk never mind play any tennis! It is just unbelievably hot! On our way here we stopped at Edith falls and, as it is croc free (well it is sort of croc free - the sign says “swim at your own risk”), we took a dip in the lake with a lovely waterfall backdrop and then set off on a hike up the gorge - we obviously hadn’t learnt any lessons from the day before! Here it was different though, instead of a scenic view as a reward for your hard work, there was a pool between two waterfalls. The water was super refreshing after the walk and the waterfall was lovely. A group of tourists showed up and tried to swim towards the waterfall to get under it, but the current was too strong for them so Andrew showed them all how it was done and swam right under it like it was his own natural shower (show-off!). The downhill walk was much easier and, after some lunch, we headed for Kakadu and the Northern
Territory which took us an hour an half ahead in time so we are now 9 and a half hours ahead of you guys. Driving through the park was pretty cool, we didn’t see that much as you need to go off-road to see the best bits but the scenery was quite nice and we drove past a few bushfires and stuff. We had originally intended to go to the major town in the park (Jabiru) but, after speaking to a guy at the information centre, we stopped in Cooinda. It was here we had our second awful encounter with wildlife - the moths and the mozzies! There were hundreds of them! Everyone was constantly clapping thin air and hitting themselves like people that should be in some sort of mental institute! We bought some candles and repellent coils to burn but they were just relentless. Even when you spray yourself they still get the one tiny centimetre that you missed. It was pretty awful. They had a lovely pool where we were staying so we spent the next day lounging around and reading. We were going to do one of the pre-pay tours but none of them really took
our fancy; the aborigines own Kakadu land and so all the tours are aborigine based. Its not that we are not interested in their culture and stuff it is just that we wanted a tour that would bring us into the wild and explore some of the wildlife - we didn’t really want to pay £150 to listen to someone play a didgeridoo and teach us how to cook a pig in a hole in the ground. Also I felt they were kind of exploiting their own culture for tourist money or something, I don’t know, but we decided against it anyway. In the afternoon we headed for Jabiru and had the most amazing BBQ dinner. It was £10 and all you can eat, cooked on the barby right in front of you; there was steak, and chicken, and kangaroo, and prawns and all sorts - delicious!
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