Blogs from Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, Oceania - page 9

Wednesday, 31 August 2011 Kakadu dreaming. Off we go from Darwin, happy to have enjoyed such a great time there. We headed toward Kakadu National Park. Our first stop along the way was the Jumping Crocodile Cruise on the Adelaide River Queen. As we cruised down the river, crocodiles would approach the boat, in the hope that they would get a treat of a hunk of pork dangled over the side of the boat. The tour operators had learned over the past 27 years that if you entice them enough, the crocodiles would jump out of the water to grab the meat. We fed about 15 crocodiles before turning around and heading back to the jetty. On our way back, we noticed a number of hawk like birds in the sky following us. That number increased ... read more

An early start today saw us all out on the water, David & David fishing and Lisa taking heaps of photos. It was a really beautiful morning with plenty of wildlife to photograph. The boys caught 4 barra, Lisa tried to reel one in but "dropped" it just short of the boat. We also saw 8 crocs and got great photos of 5 of them. After lunch the boys went back out and pulled in another 5 barra. We didn't keep any fish today, they were all released. We are heading back to Darwin tomorrow to catch up with Russell Jeffery and see where Josh will be playing footy this summer. We have also decided to go to the Darwin Cup on Monday which should be a great day out. ... read more

Our plan was to leave Darwin on Monday but of course plans change and we decided to stay one more day, unfortunately the caravan park we were in had already booked the site we were on so we decided to go for a drive. We headed off to Mandorah - we were thinking about taking the ferry across from Darwin but ended up driving around. We stopped off at the pier just as the ferry was docking and the day trippers were heading to the pub for lunch. We had a look around the pub and then headed off again. Heading back toward Darwin we decided to book into another caravan park and head out to Kakadu on Wednesday. Doesn't seem to matter which caravan park you stay in in Darwin you are under the flight ... read more

This morning we are still in the Kakadu National Park. There are some great natural sandstone formations that we can climb in the Gunlom Lookout Walk to get to a natural waterfall the feeds into a larger upper pool and down into lower pools. These are great swimming holes as they are cool, clear and croc free water. Not too much of that around here. It is such a relaxing morning and the weather is fantastic. We travel to the small mining town of Pine Creek and I transfer to the other tour that will take me on the last leg of my tour. There is gold in them there hills. The gold mining industry here in Australia is very strong and making their dollar stronger than ours for the first time ever this past year. ... read more

Today we left Alice Springs heading north for the Devils Marbles. It was about a 400km trip. Getting there at 2pm we decided that we’d have lunch and then push on, to Tennant Creek. The camp ground was pretty busy and we figured once we’d seen his marbles there was not much reason to stay! We climbed the marbles and standing on top we could see thousands of acres of marbles ready to be explored. The marbles were formed when molten lava was pushed up from underground. Over time the ground around them has been eroded. We stopped in at Brenner Springs Roadhouse and checked out there famous hat collection and chowed down on some of their home-made sausage rolls! Fuel is getting cheaper, now $1.73 a litre!! After arriving in Tennant Creek, we tried the ... read more