Bamurru Plains Top End

... die tausende von Jahre alt sind. Auf unserer Fahrt in den Kakadu National Park wurden die Termitenhuegel im groesser. In Cooinda war dann die Bootsfahrt auf dem Yellow Water Billabong. Wir konnten viele Voegel beobachten und natuerlich auch die Salzwasserkrokodile.

Sunday

After a 3 hour drive from Edith Falls, we arrived at Cooinda in the Kakadu in the afternoon. We set up camp, had a swim the great local pool, and has a meal at our resort. We could have got away with one meal instead of one each. The meals here are NT size, which makes the US portions seem small.


Monday.

It was up early for the 5.45 am sunrise Yellow Waters boat cruise. This cruise took down the ...

So, after 10 months in Australia i've finally decided that maybe it would be good to put a blog together of where I am and what i'm up to. I'm currently in Darwin after spending the last couple of months working in a small community called Adelaide River, which is about an hour south of here. I met some really nice people there and got to know a few colourful characters from the outback, but after such a long period of time in a place ...

6 August – Kakadu – Gagudja Lodge Cooinda – Home of Yellow Water

We set off at about 7.40pm on Thursday 6 August for our trip into Kakadu.  Now we knew that we couldn't get down many of the tracks as they are 4 wheel drive roads and we didn’t have time to explore too much so we kept mainly to the main roads and just stopped off at a couple of places.  The first was the Bowali Visitor Centre, which was another example of Northern Territory’ ...

17 June - Kakadu National Park

Here we are lying around the pool at Kakadu Lodge Camping Ground – an oasis in otherwise fairly inhospitable country. We are having a day off as we are both exhausted. We have been going non stop for 3 months and just need a break! It's hardly stressful but we are both feeling like just stopping still with no jobs to do and no places to go for a while.

Today we visited the rock art sites ...

Monday 15 June 2009
We left Katherine today and headed towards Kakadu. Although Katherine's temperature was high around 30 degrees when we hit Kakadu the humidity was bad. We have seen lots of termite mounds all over the place. Owen is not enjoying being here because of the humidity, mossies, sandflies and ants. All the campsites are narrow and there is no routine for the way they sit (I ...

Today was our first offroad experience and thankfully we weren't driving. The hire company doesn't allow us to drive on the road to Jim Jim which is good as there is no way either of us could've coped with this road. The road (if you can call it that) is the width of one car (but is 2 way), very bendy and the full length seemed to be all sand and quite deep in places. We passed a car stuck ...

Today we collected the van (our home for the next 17 days) and headed out of Darwin. The drive today was relatively easy as the road was sealed the whole way. On our journey, we passed a lot of smoldering trees which we later found out to be burned by the Aborgines as a way of controlling the amount of bush growth. They burn them now, when the ground is still wet and there is still moisture in the plants in the ...

... I think Ethan and I spotted more wildlife than the tour guide. Was interesting hearing a bit more about a few of the birds and the boys were happy spotting a few more crocs. Maybe I'm a bit over the tours and have heard the spiels a bit too much. Lots of others have said it's one of the best tours they've done. Also might of been a little ...

... second hike into Jim Jim Falls - some had told us the boys wouldn't be able to do the walk but we thought we'd give it a go and they were champions as all up both of the walks together would of been close to 4km of rock climbing .... although by the end of the 2nd walk Elijah was pretty tired and had had enough (see pics of my strong man carrying 2 kids for the last part). The ...