Kakadu

After Katherine we travelled to Kakadu National Park, we were able to camp on the edge of the park at a roadhouse which allowed dogs, no dogs in the National Park of course. We arrived there on Northern Territory Day and thay had Happy Hour and a sausage sizzle plus Fireworks.... fireworks were fun, two blokes at the bar jumped into the ute loaded on the fireworks, drove to the other side of the fuel bowsers and set the display going, of course one went the wrong way and set all the dry grass on fire, they did get the ute away and the fire out before any disaster.......

The caravan park manager directed us to a rock pool 6 kms down the road, not on any of the maps, it was a short 4wd drive in and short walk, lovely place, very peaceful, no one else there

Our first day at Kakadu we spent at Gunlom Falls, the worst gravel rd I have been on, really corrugated and we saw a least 5 caravans on this road..... The falls were a disappointment we were told it was down to a trickle because there was no wet season this year, but hard to see the trickle. We decided to take the walk up to the top where there were Infinity Pools. It was a hard climb up but we made it, lovely up there, worth the climb.

The next day we decided on an easier day and drove to Cooinda and Yellow water, this is the wetland area of the park, also breakfast and sunset cruises operate from here,  Cooinda has resort type accomodation as well as a caravan park, we enjoyed a coffee here, on from there we went to Nourlangie where the rock art is situated, by then we had done about 130ks, we carried on from there to Jabiru making that about 150ks we had travelled, Jaibiru is a small community just outside the park and it has a Bakery, so well worth travelling the distance.  Another area we could have visited was Jim Jim falls but there again only a trickle of water and a two hour 4wd track to get there we decided to give that a miss.

Kakadu Park is big, lots of distance to travel, lots of walking tracks, rock pools 

Road into Kakadu

Walking track to Rock Pool

Lovely Rock Pool, no swimming, could be a croc.....

Gunlom Falls, no trickle

Our walk or rock  climb to the top

Looking down, you can just see the car park

The Infinity pools, not far to go now 

Well worth the climb up here

Brian went for a dip, funny I thought his bathers were blue, not seen the green bathers before, that's right his bathers are in the car....

Can you see the lost Grandad with his hat on

Hiding behind the tree

Wetlands area, Yellow water

Aboriginal Rock Drawings

And end if our trip the bakery and a pie each, Brian went back for a pastie before we left and I had an icecream