Sep 28, 2010

Kakadu

Camping Next day we dropped Matilda off at the Doggie Hotel and set off in search of adventure.

We've had a trip booked to the Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory for a while.

Bummer that hairyplanes fly from Brisbane to Darwin but once a day, and that's at silly o'clock.

So we hopped on a plane at 7pm and we were off. Eloise is becoming quite the frequent flyer and just takes it all in her strides.

Landed in Darwin at one in the morning (I think) and stomped across the airport to the hotel to collapse for a few hours.

Then across town to grab the 4WD before a very tentative drive East in the Landcruiser, down the Stuart Highway then the Arnhem Highway and to the edge of Kakadu National Park.

The heat was pretty intense. There are two seasons up there, Dry and Wet. We were there towards the tail end of the Dry.

When the Wet arrives, well the name says it all doesn't it? Except that roads get blocked and vast tracts of land flooded. Very Wet. But not for a few weeks yet.

Kakadu is famous for being a huge expanse of unspoilt National Park and as we headed into it, we started to appreciate the differences with Queensland. The trees are much shorter, and interspersed with palms. The ground is red, and rocky. The rivers are wide, or dry.

And here be monsters... the waterways are populated with crocodiles.

So when we left the highway and made our way to Impromptu Campsite #1 at the attractively named Two Mile Hole, we were a little wary as we pitched our tent a little way from the river, but the wariness was soon replaced by mile irritation as we found we were short of a mallet in our camping kit.

We raised our eyebrows a little at the kids fishing by the riverside, but when the nearby campers buzzed up in their tinny and hopped out with a few Barramundi to sling on the barbie, well we thought what a hardy bunch as we tucked into our Hippy Food then got an early night.

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