KAKADU NATIONAL PARK

Kakadu was brilliant. Huge wetlands, bird life, rock art, bush walks and, yes, crocodiles.

                            Nourlangie

 Off for a walk around the billabong

now up to the lookout

We got up early and did the Yellow Water cruise

 

 

 

 Off for a walk......................

 

Took the road out to Gunlom Falls

 Off on another walk                             

 

 Cahill's Crossing.........not for the faint hearted

 

Mamukala Wetlands

Ubirr

We climbed to the lookout

 we are off again and lovin' it

 

 Can't get away from them

 Fogg Dam

 We say KAKADOO!!!!! Heading back to Darwin for a couple of weeks, then back tracking down to Tennant Creek before heading east to QLD.

DARWIN

 

WOW!!!! What a fantastic place Darwin is. We love it. Fantastic weather.......at the moment, heaps of history, easy to navigate, great food, music, art, Cyclone Tracy.......we can go on.

Tree of Knowledge

Cyclone Tracy ruins

                            Government House

 Parliament House

 Unique way of decorating a loo                   

A little bit of culture in the CBD

 

  "Desert Rose".......Botanical Gardens





                                             
Sunset over Mindil Beach

 ...............a little bit of music

 The Bombing of Darwin is a fascinating piece of history we were taught little about at school. So much to learn, so much to tell us about it all around Darwin.

                         

WW11 Oil Storage Tunnels

 Stokes Wharf copped plenty during the bombings

                                               

 Today a great place for fun and games

We took a boat ride over to the Tiwi Islands

.....and were greeted with a smoking ceremony and a dance

Bower Bird's nest

 

 

Mattias Ulungura created history when he became the first Australian to capture an enemy on Australian soil........a pilot shot down during the first bombing. He crept up behind the unsuspecting pilot, put a stick in his back and said "Stick em' Up", just like he had seen in a recent showing of a Hoppalong Cassidy film.

 They love their footy on the Tiwi Islands. Below  Shane Tippuamanteri's 2005 premiership guernsey and medal of the mighty South Fremantle Bulldogs.......... was there and remember that game well. Good onya "Tippa"