We started off in Litchfield National Park, at Wangi Falls. We had heard you could swim at the bottom of the falls. The falls were beautiful and there was a gorgeous pool surrounding them, but swimming was banned as the water levels were too high as we have just come out of the wet season. If the water levels are too high there is an increase in the chance of Saltwater crocs being in the area, so when the water is above a certain level they ban swimming. Before this rule something like 8 people died in 20 years, but since the rule only 1 person has died (from croc attack) in the past decade. Anyway we stayed in the national park campsite near by where we could hear the falls which was nice. Then we went to Darwin itself. A small city with a very tropical feel, get the 50% Deet Bug spray out! Apparently it has a bit of a party reputation, which was true they had a big line of bars and pubs which reminded me of Tenerife (although more classy) so we had some good nights out there. We went to the deckchair cinema, right by the beach so you could watch the sun go down. Although you can't swim in the sea as it's Stinger season, lots of deadly jelly fish in the sea. We went on a fishing trip, I've never done one before but I managed to catch a sea perch something or other, but apparently it was too small to keep so we had to throw it back in, Chris caught one too, and we got to eat that on the boat BBQ. We went to Mindil market, a huge market that sells food from every country and clothes, didgeridoos and all sorts. You can walk right onto the beach and there is loads of live bands and you can bring your own alcohol, which I though was pretty good! They have a good free museum in Darwin too, which had a display on Cyclone Tracy which came in the 70s and completely devastated the area. From the pictures it looked like a huge foot just stood on the whole of Darwin and squashed it down to rubble. We went to Kakadu national park, and we just had to see some of the crocs. We did the Croc jumping tour which takes you on a boat out into the river. They hang bits of meat over the boat off the end of a pole and the crocs jump up for it. One called Bogart was HUGE he came out of the water onto the bank and I could not believe how big he was. He had one leg missing which he lost in a territorial fight. Our first stop was Ubirr, which has Aboriginal rock art 20,000 years old! They call it X-ray art as they draw animals from their bones. We climbed up over the rocks onto a hill and you could see over into Arnhem land, which is private aboriginal land and only 3 tour groups are allowed entry. We had an excellent view over the park you could see big green flooded plains which isn't something we've seen in Oz so far. There are Croc signs everywhere in the park warning you that they are about, which was a bit scary, we didn't see any in the creeks we passed and I'm glad! Jim Jim falls was closed due to the road, which was a shame as it's the parks top attraction. Our favourite place was Gunlom, which had a waterfall. We did the steep tough climb to the top of the waterfall, clambering over rocks and at the top were large rock pools with mini waterfalls that then flowed down into the main waterfall about 100m below. There didn't seem to be any croc signs there so we went for a swim, it was amazing! The water looked like it went on forever and we could see all the beautiful scenery around us. One of the highlights of our trip so far. Then we went for a swim in the plunge pool right at the bottom of the waterfall, but we stayed near the edge in case any crocs came (there were croc signs here, but they do allow swimming) but it wasn't as good as swimming at the top of it.