Our Top End tour of Litchfield and Kakadu National Park - another World Heritage Site - was with Adventure Tours. To enlist Robin to participate in more adventure travel I booked this two night, three day camping tour with prepared meals, cots in tents, and hot showers each night. But none of this would assuage her fear of being outdoors in a region with more deadly life forms than the rest of the world.
The night time journey to the loo was an adventure in itself, and certainly required a torch (flashlight) to be on the look out.
Kakadu can be roughly divided into two portions, the stoneys and the wetlands. The stoneys are, yes again, sandstone cliffs. The rest is the wetland they drain into. There are also two seasons here: The Wet and The Dry. The aboriginals, being more attuned, have identified six. During The Wet the lowland of the map below is flooded and the sheet of water drains north into the sea. As it recedes streams form and some pools are sequestered from the flowing channels called "billibongs". These are similar to oxbow lakes, but seasonal and refreshed each year. This is great habitat for crocodiles and birds.
Since a picture is worth a thousands words I'll keep this post to mostly images.
Relief map of Kakadu showing stoneys on right and wetland on left.
Swimming hole in Litchfield. Great fun under the falls.
Robin being welcomed into Village by Aboriginal elder
spitting water on her head.
Aaron trying a diggeridoo - great sounding instrument for ceremony
Herron on billibong - but no crocodiles
Spirit people and animals in prehistoric rock art
Sunset at Ubirr on the Stoneys overlooking the wetland.
Next Post: The Top End Part 2 - "See Australia and Die"
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