Day 40 Corroboree to Jabiru (Kakadau)

Today it was off to Kakadu for a few days. First stop was the Mamukala wetlands. Plenty of birdlife there - lots more Magpie Geese and Whistlings ducks, and a heap of Jabiru on the far side of the lake, that we needed the binoculars to pick up. It was then on to the Jabiru township itself to set-up camp at Kakadu Lodge Caravan Park. Tight squeeze there, as there was about 6 of us in a park that had 186 powered sites.

After camp set up we had time in the afternoon to drive up to Cahill's crossing which is the main road into Arnhem Land. There were guys casting lures from the ford as the cros swam around - crazy.

Just up from. We Cahill's crossing was Ubirr - a site which had numerous aboriginal cave paintings that date back 20,000 years. A tour group happended to be moving around just in front of us, so the kids were not shy in joining up and getting the guided tour.

The view fom the look out at Ubirr goes down as one of the best. You could see 360 degrees and the view changedfrom rocky hills to the distant escarpment of Arnhem land to the vast plains to the north which will flood in the months to come. It was interesting chatting to the tour guide was said there was once 500,000 water buffalo that roamed these plains, however they have now been culled back to just a few thousand. We saw some wild pigs from the hill top but no buffalo today.

After snapping a few photos we had to scarper quickly off the hill top due to a storm front moving quickly towards us from the East. Then back to Jabiru for the night.

Richard