Nourlangie - We made a relatively early start to beat the heat and drove into Nourlangie Rock. It's a beautiful bush/rock walk with incredible views, an ancient Aboriginal shelter and a very different type of Aboriginal rock art. The shelter has been dated at about 20,000 years old and people were still using it as recently as 1981. We left there and had morning tea at the edges of the stunning Anbangbang Billabong, then drove back to Cooinda for lunch. A...

Ubirr - Next morning we left Gunlom to head further into Kakadu, hitting the 4000km mark for the trip! We arrived at ‘Cooinda’ about lunchtime, set up, ate and restocked for an afternoon of driving and sightseeing. Being Sunday, the township of Jabiru was very quiet and we were unable to grab any groceries. We kept heading on to Cahills crossing, the border into Arhnem Land, where we got afternoon tea at the Border store then watched the crocs emerge an...

Gunlom – Leaving Edith Falls we headed into Kakadu, hitting our first red dirt and corrugations and arriving at Gunlom at lunchtime. It wasn’t a pleasant arrival at all. It was very hot and the wind was howling across the campground, blowing huge clouds of dirt and ash from a recent fire, across everyone and everything. We set up with our ‘backs to the wind’, had a quick lunch and went in search of someplace better. And that, we certainly found. As with...