Day 31 - Darwin It was an early start as we were booked into a 9am jumping crocodile cruise with the Quaine family. We chose the Adelaide River Cruise company as we went with them 6 years ago and they are a smaller operator. On the drive in there was lots of smoke from a fire in the wetlands so we were worried about the visibility but once we got closer to the Adelaide River the smoke cleared up. We also couldn’t believe how many birds were flying around. We ...

Day 30 - Kakadu to Darwin (279km/4.5hrs) We left Merl Campground at 8am and stopped at Mamukala Wetlands. There were lots of different birds. As we continued our drive out of Kakadu we saw lots of brolgas and a croc sunning himself at the East Alligator River. We were hoping to stop at the Roadhouse as they used to have lots of animals but they are closed for renovations. As we got closer to the Adelaide River there were lots of smoke and a few fires due to b...

Day 29 - Kakadu Wow, talk about thousands of mozzies. After killing many mozzies before we went to bed we were woken up at 2am and were still awake at 5am trying to kill them. It was terrible and we were all exhausted and finally fell back asleep until 8am. We then had lots of coffee and breakfast then drove back to Cahills Crossing to watch Rog & Josh fish. There weren’t many crocs today but the boys had fun fishing even though they didn’t catch anyth...

Day 28 - Kakadu Gungurul to Merl Campground (177km / 3hrs) We left our campsite at Gungurul at 8:15am and our first stop was Anbangbang Billabong but unfortunately I got Rog lost. I thought we missed the turn off so we continued driving until we could turn around. We then turned around and realised we were supposed to turn off where we turned around - ops! As we drove over the Nourlangie Creek we saw our first saltwater crocodile in the wild. We finally arrive...

Day 27 - Kakadu We had a pretty restless night due to the heat and the mozzies and we were ready for another swim so off to Gunlom we went. What a terrible idea! From our campsite it’s about a 70km drive each way and the last 35km is corrugated road which we hate! It took us over an hour to drive the last 35kms. We were all very over it by the time we arrived but it was a place we loved last time so we wanted to see it again. Unfortunately due to the not...