Blogs from Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 14

Hey Guys, this is birthday Gal reporting to you all.....birthday so far has been AMAZING!!! We were out for some drinks last night....liking it being my birthday here....you get free drinks everywhere!!!!!!!! Yesterday we were at Litchfield Park, a great waterfall sight were we swam and chilled, today were off to Kakadu; crocs home and lotsa aborginals!! Got a punch party tonight in celebration for my birthday, the tour guide has organised loads events for my bday which is awsome!!! Met some very cool people, my room mates last night were wicked and I am so having the time of my life!! Beside the extremly burnt nose, forehead, bum, toes, hands and....yeap everywhere, I feel pretty good! in the outback the signal is going to be minimal so I prob wont be in contact for a ... read more

On airplanes the air-condition is normally set to pretty cold, and that’s normally fine. But when you get out from an airplane where the air is cool and dry, and step directly out on the ground in Darwin Airport, the heat and especially the humidity makes it feel like you’re stepping in to a sauna. If you were ever in doubt; yes it is hot in Darwin! We arrived on the 10th of December, found a hostel, and booked a tour to Kakadu National Park. Since Darwin is the city in Australia with the highest consumption of BEEER per citizen; we thought that we might as well take part in the fun (we would properly have gone drinking even if nobody else in the city was drinking, but at least we had an excuse this time). ... read more

Darwin to Kakadu October 21, 2008 It was a long but good day. First order of business was hiring (that means renting) a 4-wheel drive vehicle over the phone. Then we went to Woolworths (in Australia that is a grocery store chain) and bought some food before Andrew arrived at the hotel with our Nissan. We are now in Kakadu National Park, the largest park in Australia and was named a World Heritage Site for both its cultural and natural resources. It is quite the place, especially when it comes to bird watching. We started out with a visit to Window to the Wetlands (not in the park) to look at the exhibits there, but I ended up spending most of the time visiting with several Aboriginal kids. They were on a field trip and were ... read more

My final boat cruise was friday evening. I packed my bags and left at sunrise with one of the same tour groups the next morning, bound for two days in Kakadu National Park. Many thanks to Debden, the driver, who agreed to take me on board at very short notice for the small price of a crate of beer. The park changes massively between wet and dry, and large areas periodically become completely inaccessible due to flooding. At this time of year most of the waterfalls are reduced to a small trickle, but it is in the shape of the rocks you can see how powerful these rivers can be during the wet season. The morning of the first day was spent swimming at the beautiful Barramundi Gorge. The waterfalls here are still running, and there ... read more

This morning we packed up and headed to Barramundi Falls. Now, I've been banging on about how literal the Aussies are in naming there places, so in this instance you would expect there to be Barramundi in there, well no, doesn't work like that this time! There are no Barramundi in there!?! Walking up to the top if the falls we saw a massive Golden Orb Spider and I mean massive, but it was missing a leg, what funny is that the males are the size of its head alone! At the top is one of the best plunge pool/waterfall/swimming holes I've been in. Imagine, at the top of a huge water fall there being pools you can jump in from 7-12m high, natural slides you slip down and then have to bob down under the ... read more