Saturday, October 11, 2008

Kakadu National Park - Darwin - day 33

This morning we got up at 5h30 again and left the camp at 6h30. On our way to the Nourlangie Rock, we saw lots of wild horses. At Nourlangie, we saw some aboriginal rock art that was more than 2000 years old. There were drawings of black wallaroos, evil spirits, barramundi and also some x-ray style drawings (where they drew the bones of the animals). We climbed up to a lookout from where we had a nice view of the Kakadu escarpment. From there we drove over a 4WD path until Barramundi Gorge where we walked over some rocks for half an hour and then went for a nice swim in a waterhole. There was also a nice waterfall and some rocks that we could jump off of. After the walk back, we had lunch by a huge 6-metre tall termite mound. After lunch we drove back to Darwin, which took about 4 hours. We stopped at Corroborree Station where we saw a 4-metre long salt water crocodile called Brutus... he was huge!! and really impressive! Once we got to Darwin, we went to the hostel and then met up with everyone from our group to go and have another free dinner at the Victorian Hotel. It was lots of fun!!

Weather: very very hot and humid and lots of flies everywhere...

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