Date: 20th August 2011

Place: Kakadu National Park

Weather: Sunny and hot

It finally got around to a time to get up… I felt rough! My cold had come out properly and I was sooo tired. Nothing that a good hit of coffee couldn't fix though. We had a long drive to Kakadu as well so I slept a bit then. I didn't realise just how big Kakadu National Park is; it's the size of wales!!! On this trip the normal journey from one tourist spot to the next has been about an hour long…we have travelled like 2 hours to some places.

Our first stop today was Ubirr where there are lots of aboriginal paintings on the walls. They date back hundreds of thousands of years because there are pictures of Tasmanian tigers which became extinct in this area aggess ago and they always drew what they ate. It was weird being in an overhand where apparently loads of them used to live. They would paint loads of fish and turtles and then the more recent ones were things to do with white men like how we always put our hands in our pockets and there was one of a gun. They also had some that told stories that were lessons for younger ones.

We walked up to the top of the rocks where there was a really nice lookout. This is where Crocodile Dundee was filmed as well and we saw the rock that he stood on when he swung a bit of wood around to call his aboriginal friends. I really need to watch the film now though because I cant remember it.

It was time for lunch after another long drive. We stopped at a camp site and made sandwiches before heading on to Mamuk Gorge. It was a long walk to the top of the waterfall but so worth it! We had a couple of hours of just swimming in all the different pools the waterfall had made. There were caves to swim through and rocks to climb on. It was such good fun and so clear!

We then head down to the bottom of the waterfall so that we could swim underneath it. I was just having fun watching a stripy fish swim around us all. It kept swimming towards me though which freaked me out.

That was the last stop of the day since it was a long drive back to Jabiru where we were camping for the night. After having a dinner of Kangaroo and Buffalo Sausages we decided to get everyone trying a Tim Tam Slam. I had heard of it before but never had the chance to try it so was very excited! What you do is get a Tim Tam (which is pretty similar to a penguin). You then bite of a small chunk from two diagonally opposite corners. It can then be used as a straw to suck a hot drink through and as soon as you feel the drink come through you eat the bar because it all melts in your mouth. It is soooo good!!!!

It was an amazingly clear night that night so we decided to sleep outside, and because it was my last night. I didn't think there would be too many mosquitos later on because everywhere else ive been in Australia it has got really cold at night. I was wrong though. They were driving me crazy and because my hands were the only bits I couldn't cover up they bit them to bits! Amazingly they still managed to get under my big hoody to bite my stomach and they got my leg as well! I had to go in at midnight after a lot of effort to stay out I gave up and went into my tent where I slept really well for what was left of the night.