Blogs from Jabiru, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 5

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru July 2nd 2008

@ 11:06pm on July 1, 2008 I’m safe and sound (no crocodile attacks!) back in my bed listening to fireworks being shot off for Northern Territory Day (and typing this on my computer to copy and paste into my travel journal tomorrow) and I have to say that it feels great to be back in a bed. We got back from Kakadu National Park around 6:30pm after three stops and a really long (about 5 hour) bus ride home. Kakadu was a great experience… we got up around 6:00am in order to catch the bus out of the Alatai at around 7:00am. The bus was a nice one… it was a Greyhound Australia coach bus… so a lot of people slept on the way to our destination. Our first stop on Sunday morning was at a ... read more

The final countdown .....

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru May 29th 2008

Yum, yum ....

Stu and Lizzie

Well, today is our penultimate in Aus - booooooooo! Today, as we sit writing a final few lines on the blog, it is 33 degrees outside and sunny. On Saturday, as we arrive at London Heathrow, we just know that it will be rain and storms (we have had a tip off!). Another quick update for you as we dash around .... Since our last update we've had a busy time, packing in as much as possible. The weather in Port Douglas improved (slightly) and certainly enough for us to pack in everything that we wanted to see there (although Stu didn't get his 'around the pool' afternoon). Whilst there we were lucky enough to coincide with the start of the 'Reef & Rainforest Carnival', so a good few hours was had watching the swirl of ... read more

Trip to Kakadu

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru May 7th 2008

Demolitiondebbie

We had a few days in the YHA in Darwin until we left for Kakadu. Mainly we lazed around the pool, wandered into town and went on a few nights out. On May 5th we left for Kakadu National Park. When I was originally told about it, I was under the impression Crocodile Dundee was filmed around this area, but it wasn't mentioned on the trip so now I'm not sure! We started off that morning with a jumping crocodile cruise. There are hundreds of crocodiles just lurking in the river, and they came right up to our boat (as in, they were a meter away from our open window!). The guy at the top of the boat dangles buffalo meat on a rope down to the crocs and they jump for it whilst everyone takes ... read more

Marijke and Luc

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru April 2nd 2008

Kakadu

Notredame

Hello, A few pictures of Kakadu National Park Hallo, Een paar prentjes uit Kakadu Nationaal Park... read more

The Continent DownUnder

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru March 21st 2008

The Northern Territory

Macjava

Again with Bransby and Jessica we left Singapore on a late flight and arrived in Darwin after midnight. We caught a cab to our hotel on the Esplanade, checked in and right to bed. In our original plan, we were going to rent a car and do our touring on our own. At the last minute we decided it might be better to join a commercial tour to see Kakadu Park. As I will explain later, it turned out to be an excellent idea. Even though we went to bed late, we were up at an early hour to meet out tour guide at 6:00AM. It is about a 3 hour drive from Darwin to Kakadu so a good time to catch up on a little sleep. Shortly after a stop at the Bark Hut Tourist ... read more

28th February 2008

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru February 29th 2008

Boat transfer on the road

JayesJaunts

28th February 2008 Today we awoke in the crocodile hotel for second day of our tour. It was a bright sunny morning and again it had been raining heavily in the night. We were picked up by the tour guide Peter at 8.00 clock and set out for escarpment country at Ubirr. Normally this tour wouldn't run as the water was more than 5 metres over the Arnhmen Highway. However Peter was going to take our small party of 6 to the edge of the floods where a boat was waiting to take us through the paper bark forest of Magela Creek and then to a bus waiting on the other side of the floods to take us to Ubirr. Ubirr is an outcrop of escarpment and a tribal area with more amazng rock art with ... read more

Litchfield and Kakadu

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru February 6th 2008

hyuqy

So it turns out that they have heard of the internet in Kakadu National Park! I'm in an air conditioned shop (hurrah) waiting for my laundry to dry and have just enough time to update you all on the last couple of days. I started my tour on Monday and it's been brilliant so far. Our first stop was a swim in a beautiful lake in Litchfield National Park which was a great icebreaker! The lake had a huge waterfall thundering into it and the water was lovely and cool. I couldn't swim hard enough against the current to get up to the waterfall, so I just lay at the other end and chatted to one of the other girls, loving the fact that for once I wasn't sweating buckets! A brilliant experience. After that we ... read more

Kakadu National Park

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru November 9th 2007

Magnetic Termite Mounds

Viky

hey there!! now, after visiting the outback and seeing how hard the life can be because of the heat and the dryness, we got to the humidity (85%) combined with heat (41 C!). I now realize how much i've travelled, how big the distances have been and how different the landscape is after a day drive. I would rather say that australia is composed of many different countries!! by the way, that's the aboriginal way of seeing OZ. For them, australia is composed of different countries, with different languages and cultures, absolutly different the ones to the others. That's one of the problems for the Australian government, because it can not treat all of them equally, because they are all very very different!! by the way, since we passed alice springs, the population of aboriginal people ... read more

Hitting The Blacktop Again

Oceania » Australia » Northern Territory » Kakadu National Park » Jabiru August 10th 2007

Darwin

Scotty and Janie

Hi again to all. As you all probably know we have spent the last three and a half months in Darwin keeping ourselves relatively busy with myself working and Janie going hard at the gym five days a week (even getting to meet and train with Hugh Jackman!!). All up Janie lost 6kgs and gained a lot of muscle tone, she looks and feels fantastic, whilst I lost around the same by cycling whenever I got a chance though this was much less after I started working. The trick now is to maintain the loss as too much hard work went into losing it… The car saga is finally over and boy are we glad, the less said about that the better! The time I spent working was very enjoyable as the guy’s I worked with ... read more

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