Maddy's real 5th b'day at Cooinda Kakadu (9th July) Had a great relaxed day today for Maddy's b'day. Riley spent the day with us again which was great. We made carrot cake with cream cheese icing and fresh bread rolls for lunch. We went to the swimming pool twice and the boys were having a ball doing somersaults off the edge of the pool. The signs said 'no diving' but I figured somersaulting isn't head first so that's O.K. Another mother saw her son copying the ...

Ubir and being eaten ALIVE!!! (7th and 8th July) Yep the mozzies were so bad if you killed one three came in return. The ranger giggled when Luuk said we wanted to stay for four nights please. He obviously knew that the mosquitos were unbearable. We were glad we payed for one night when we didn't even make the one after all. We packed up at 23.00 hrs after Luuk had killed hundreds of mosquitos just in Ashley's bunk alone, being the highest and hottest and theref...

A day out with Sean and Riley ( 6th July) We had a great morning going out in the troopy with Riley, the new seven year old friend of the kids, and his dad Sean who runs the Bush Tucker Safari Tours from Cooinda. We went to help him move camp as the magpie geese had moved to another wetland to nest and they catch and eat these for the tour, along with Buffulo meat (previously killed), fish and sometimes crocodile. They also eat lilies and bush carrots. We learnt...

Cooinda Kakadu National Park ( 2nd - 6th July) We arrived in Gagadju Cooinda a few days ago. Auntie Michelle had booked three nights for us to stay at the caravan park, where they had also booked cabins for three nights. We had a great time seeing cousin Angus and his new baby sister Tilly (4 months old) and I meeting Casi and Mieke ( Uncle Noody's twins) for the first time. There was live entertainment for the first two nights which was great. On the first ni...

Katherine ( 27th and 28th June) Arrived in Katherine fairly early to go to the hot springs and started to drive down to the gorge, however soon realized the hot springs were elsewhere. We made our way back, after stopping at one caravan park to ask for accomodation. We had seen some caravans parked on the front lawn and there was plenty of room so thought we would ask. Well, after waiting 40 minutes to get served, the manager said he would squeeze us in for a s...