Before we get into posting some stories from the past week I just figured I’d give a quick summary. We whole-heartily recommend Kakadu National Park in Northern Australia. It was absolutely amazing, and we did get used to the heat (though I did sweat through my shirt every day we were there). The wildlife, incredible landscape, and Aboriginal culture and rock art all in one place make for a great mix of things to learn about. Hopefully I can find some time and way to upload all of the pictures we took, but here is a taste of the local wildlife:
That last one is either a wallaroo or a wallaby. We really have no idea how to tell the difference. They hop like a kangaroo, but are quite smaller. Can you tell?
Just getting to Kakadu itself was quite an adventure. Everyone has seen the kangaroo crossing signs, but the crocodiles next five kilometers kinda surprised us.
Alas, we saw no crocs crossing the road. Then once we entered the Park we had to drive through fire (literally) in order to get to our camping site. It seems the Aboriginals are still keeping up with their millennia long tradition of cleansing the forest with fire, so there are lots of small fires going on this time of year.
We’re now sitting in Darwin airport waiting for our 1:40AM flight going to Cairns. Ideas of exactly what we are going to do are still percolating, but certainly the Great Barrier Reef will be involved.
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