Day Sixty Six - September 10th, 2013 Kakadu National Park We stopped at the local supermarket for supplies, and picked up a fancy lunch of humus, strawberries and macadamia nuts. We then pressed on to the Kakadu Visitors Centre for a sticky beak and then quickly onto the road to Twin Falls and Jim Jim Falls. When a word is repeated twice as it often is in Aboriginal terms, it means there is a lot of something - in this case the Jim plant. We headed off the bit...

Day Sixty Five - September 9th, 2013 Kakadu National Park We had a little lie in today (I was up at 7.15 because of the stifling hot tent) and walked to the bakery to buy apple buns for brekkie. Once in the car we drove out to East Alligator River, named for the large number of 'alligators' swimming within, which actually turned out to be crocs. We set off for a long walk, with rock art to line our way and some pretty dried it billabongs. As it was the hottest...

Day Sixty Four - September 8th, 2013 Kakadu National Park We started our day with a walk up to a vantage point looking out over a great view of the park, with amazing aboriginal rock art lining the path. We took the stairs cutting through a cave which was used as shelter for more then 2,000 years by the indigenous people of the area, and still had fantastic samples of the kind of art found in Kakadu. We unfortunately ended up behind a tour group which held us u...

Day Sixty Three - September 7th, 2013 Kakadu National Park We packed up and left Katherine, and drove the 200 or so kilometres to Kakadu National Park. We stopped to buy our permit ($25 per person for up to 14 days), and started or drive in. There are bitumen roads throughout the majority of the park, but there are also a number of 4x4 only dirt tracks, one of which we plunged down towards Gunlom Falls. After ingesting several pieces of ginger in order to stave...