Monday, 12 July
We were packed up and on the road by 8.45 this morning, heading for Jabiru. We hadn’t travelled 20 kms before a nasty little white car passed us (on a lovely duel highway) and threw the only stone on the road into our windscreen! We have a lovely star crack, which hopefully wont extend into a huge star crack for a while.
The countryside wasn’t any different to previous days – dry savannah (which had mostly been burnt) and wetlands. No way would I get out of the car, forget about the crocodiles and snakes as the mozzies would suck one dry! We (or he, rather) did see a crocodile in the Mary River as we crossed the bridge, and I saw a couple of buffaloes and we both saw the sea eagle.
We did the right thing and bought Kakadu Park Passes ($25 each) but rather feel that not everyone is honest. The Bowali Visitor Centre was really interesting and had a reasonable gift shop. Unfortunately, like a lot of these shops, the stock isn’t priced – very annoying.
We are staying at the Kakadu Lodge Caravan Park in Jabiru for tonight – a very big park, nice grassy sites and a lovely swimming pool. As we were heading out this afternoon, we met Jos and Graham (from Ulverstone and who were on the Spirit of Tasmania with us) just arriving at the caravan park. Long chatty happy hour tonigt!!!
With the temperature hovering around 35 degrees, we headed to Ubirr to view some Aboriginal rock art. The region, on the edge of the Arnham Land escarpment, was very similar to the Lost City in Litchfield Park. We had to walk a kilometre (according to the map!) to view the paintings, including one of a Tasmanian Tiger. We then climbed to the top of Ubirr, which is really an island of the escarpment, for a view over the wetlands and towards the escarpment. The climb wasn’t too bad, but the heat made it rather exhausting. I was quite glad to get to the top and a small breeze! The view was certainly worth the effort as the wetland grass is still very green. We were both in desperate need of a shower on our return.
The midges and mozzies here have 3 metre wingspans! We also have thick knees in the park – it really is quite nice to hear their weird calls after dark.
We were packed up and on the road by 8.45 this morning, heading for Jabiru. We hadn’t travelled 20 kms before a nasty little white car passed us (on a lovely duel highway) and threw the only stone on the road into our windscreen! We have a lovely star crack, which hopefully wont extend into a huge star crack for a while.
The countryside wasn’t any different to previous days – dry savannah (which had mostly been burnt) and wetlands. No way would I get out of the car, forget about the crocodiles and snakes as the mozzies would suck one dry! We (or he, rather) did see a crocodile in the Mary River as we crossed the bridge, and I saw a couple of buffaloes and we both saw the sea eagle.
We did the right thing and bought Kakadu Park Passes ($25 each) but rather feel that not everyone is honest. The Bowali Visitor Centre was really interesting and had a reasonable gift shop. Unfortunately, like a lot of these shops, the stock isn’t priced – very annoying.
We are staying at the Kakadu Lodge Caravan Park in Jabiru for tonight – a very big park, nice grassy sites and a lovely swimming pool. As we were heading out this afternoon, we met Jos and Graham (from Ulverstone and who were on the Spirit of Tasmania with us) just arriving at the caravan park. Long chatty happy hour tonigt!!!
With the temperature hovering around 35 degrees, we headed to Ubirr to view some Aboriginal rock art. The region, on the edge of the Arnham Land escarpment, was very similar to the Lost City in Litchfield Park. We had to walk a kilometre (according to the map!) to view the paintings, including one of a Tasmanian Tiger. We then climbed to the top of Ubirr, which is really an island of the escarpment, for a view over the wetlands and towards the escarpment. The climb wasn’t too bad, but the heat made it rather exhausting. I was quite glad to get to the top and a small breeze! The view was certainly worth the effort as the wetland grass is still very green. We were both in desperate need of a shower on our return.
The midges and mozzies here have 3 metre wingspans! We also have thick knees in the park – it really is quite nice to hear their weird calls after dark.
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Make sure you are well covered with the Bushman's when you go to Yellow Waters, Bazza got eaten alive when we were there !
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