Blogs from Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 15

There is no rushing with Carl on this tour, a very leisurely wake up followed by a cruisey breakfast and then when we're ready time to jump on the bus for the days adventure. The track we had to take to get to Twin Falls was a narrow, sandy, very bumpy 4x4 only track, and with Carl as your driver (he may like to take mornings slowly but there no suggestion that he even knows the word slow when behind the wheel) it can be quite a harrowing experience. Apart from a few sore bottoms from all the bumps, he did get us there in one piece! We first went to the bottom of Twin Falls via a short boat ride and a small walk. As nice as it was it was a bit dissapointing because ... read more

Hi Guys, I'm still good, still going, still hot and sticky!! Can't write much as i am off to catch the bus and this connection is soooooo slow. Thinking of you. will write more soon. Love ... read more

Our visit to Kakadu began with a decision to take the Watergate on a 40km long very corregated dirt road to Gunlom(Waterfall Creek). It was well worth the drive to the campground at the edge of a waterhole with a 75m waterfall. We spent 2 days swimming in the water and relaxing before making our way to Cooinda Resort Caravan Park in the centre of Kakadu. The next morning we boarded the Yellow Water Cruise to go crocodile hunting and we were not disappointed , we saw about 20 crocs including a great performance from FatBoy when he swam across the water in front of the boat and climbed onto the bank , the guide took the boat over to the bank and stopped it right next to FatBoy who is obviously very use to visitors ... read more

Mon 21st July We have a very early start; awake 5:45, pickup 6:15. We plan to get some sleep on the coach, but the driver / guide has other plans. He talks pretty much constantly over the microphone for the whole journey, covering a plethora of subjects from Aborigine culture to Australian history to plant biology to cow herding techniques to geography. Most of it is interesting stuff, but it is hard to take a lot of it in. We have about 4 hours of this, with a brief comfort stop, and the scenery itself was quite monotonous - mile after mile of savannah woodland. It's possible we may have had somewhere between 39 and 41 winks at some point. But the time passes pretty quickly and we reach our first real stop in Kakadu, where ... read more

Travelblog 9 Thursday 19th June: Moved to Browns Creek on the Daly River for a bush-camp. Leonie took the car and trailer and I drove the boat. Fished our little butts off and never landed a decent fish. Into Palmerston for food and fuel (by-Harry we seem to go through these things). Spent the night in Berrimah then out to Kakadu and 4 Mile Hole on the Wildman River. Met-up with PK and Kim King and Aloha and Ken Brown. The camp area had been devastated by the National Park Rangers doing a hazard reduction burn-off. Its hard to understand how these unqualified toilet cleaners obtain the authority to light bushfires??? Fished the billabong and caught lots of undersized Barra (legal size is greater than 55cm). Finally, with more coaching from PK and Kim and different ... read more