Tennant Creek and Warrego ( 12th- 21st June) We arrived in Tennant Creek and headed towards the information centre. Sadly, the old Battery mine, also the information centre, has mainly closed now and only the museums are open. They did have a great rock and mineral and metal museum. You can get a lot of information about what to do and where to go. We picked up a card with Dale's name on it. He was a local police officer with a hobby as a gold fossicker and c...

Douglas Daly Hot Springs (14th,15th,16th and 17th July) Decided to turn off to Douglas Daly Hot Springs in Trewilyn National Park, not having heard huge positive or negative reports about it, like most other places. We arrived and set up, thinking how dry it was and doubted that the, so called hot springs, would be that fantastic. The fees are national park fees, 15.40/ night, however due to an argument between the caravan park owner 20 km down the road and nati...

Gunlom - Kakadu National Park (11th and 12th. Left 13th July) Headed back to Gunlom from Cooinda, as they had some interesting talks on the Friday and Saturday, and we had missed this on the way in as we needed to meet up with Auntie Michelle and family. I am glad we decided to do this as our last stop, in Kakadu ,as it was an amazing place. It showed how different south Kakadu is to North Kakadu, even though only 1.5 hours away. When we arrived we went for a sw...

Cooinda Kakadu National Park ( 9th - 12th July) Arrived back to Cooinda after doing the Gagadju boat tour in the East Alligator River / Ubirr. The river is called East Alligator as it was named by colonists that didn't know about crocodiles at the time and the differences between them therefore presumed they were alligators. This was a great tour to do as it was fully run and staffed by aboriginals from Arnhem Land. Great guys, between 20-30 years old taking the...

Animal Tracks Tour - Cooinda - Kakadu (10th July) Yesterday, 10th of July, we headed out early to the Woodland's ranger talk at Mardugal. Fantastic 2 hour led walk introducing us to all the plants of the woodlands, which cover 80% of Kakadu. The other 20% is stoneland or wet lowland areas. This allows for the incredible biodiversity in this region. We saw three sorts of bush plums, learnt about two sorts of bush apple, of which we saw the red one and the turkey ...