We left Katherine via the Coffee Club and Post Office, and made our way down the Victoria Highway. We stopped at the Joe Creek Picnic Area for lunch in the Gregory National Park, and on the way we drove over the "Vince Connolly Crossing" (hi Uncle Vincent!). Timber Creek's about halfway to Kunanurra (still 300km), and that was to be our overnight stay. When we arrived around 3pm, Mum & Renee checked out the 2 caravan parks and they decided on the Wirib T...

We had a nice buffet breakfast at the Crocodile Hotel, and checked out sometime after 10am after Dad took a conference call and we got our stuff out of the room and back to the van! Not that easy transitioning from once place to the other, as half the stuff's in one place and the other half's in the other! Overall our experience at Kakadu was great (though perhaps not as spectacular as we thought it would be??). The hotel was also pretty good (though showing ...

We headed back down the Kakadu Highway again today to a place called Jim Jim Falls. It's a bit of an adventure to get there - 40kms of sealed road, followed by 50kms of unsealed road - much of it quite corrugated. Then 5kms of 4WD on a very narrow sandy track. Finally a 900m walk over rocks and large boulders past a large billabong with lots of crocodile warning signs to get to the Jim Jim Falls. The area is beautiful - even though the falls are dry at this ...

After a nice breakfast in the hotel, Mum, Renee & Eamon got the Father's Day card and present sorted out and Dad was so surprised!!! We then drove down the Kakadu Highway where many of the things to do in the area stem from. We were keen to do a Yellow Waters Cruise and arrived at Cooinda in time for the 1.15pm cruise. (The Cooinda Lodge looked like a nice place to stay). Margaret was our boat driver and guide, and she was very knowledgeable about the bir...

We had a great time in Darwin, but it was time to leave, so we headed off about 9.30am towards Kakadu. We got a call in transit from Renee's netball team (Starlings) to let us know they'd won the Final today, and are in the Grand Final next Saturday, so we were very excited! We were booked into the 11am "Spectacular Jumping Crocodile Cruise" down at Adelaide River. On our arrival, the kids got to handle a water python with a yellow belly called Medusa which ...