June 01, 2010

Week Commencing 01.06.10

Tuesday - 01.06.10 Here we are June already, back in Darwin and doing lots and lots of washing. Nine golf shirts and shorts. John spent the day preparing the van after 5 weeks to travel to Kakadu.
Wednesday – 02.06.10 On the road again, looking forward to new adventure. Stopped off to buy our passes and John finally got himself a Akubra , see pic attached. Arrived at Kakadu and who is camping beside us, yes John & Judy so happy hour was on this afternoon.
Thursday – 03.06.10 Headed off to Uribee Rock, this walks takes you past lots of Rock Art and then a climb up the rock to view the floodplains. This area is very beautiful. We also stopped at the boat ramps on the East Aligator River. We were watching some guys swimming at the causeway which takes you over to Arnhem Land. These guys are crazy, there are crocs in this river, we were told lots of them. (These guys pics turn up in Saturday’s paper, advising that a guy was taken from that very spot a few years ago). John tells me we will be coming back here to have a fish.
Friday – 04.06.10 Morning tea with John and Judy (yummy scones). In the afternoon we headed back to Cahill’s crossing for the big fishing trip. John assures me he is not going to fall in and plans to fish from the rocks. Unfortunately, no luck again. We did see a big croc swim by. We then headed off to Ubiree Rock to takes some pictures of the Sunset.
Saturday – 05.06.10 Rest day, the boys are off to the TAB for a few bets. Judy and I spend the afternoon relaxing watching movies and reading books. Happy hour when the boys came home.
Sunday – 06.06.10 John and Judy leave to continue down south. We spent a busy day, bushwalking and exploring. We visited Noulangie Rock, lots of rock art and a climb to a lookout over Arnhem land. We got some information from Shaun the Ranger who actually asked to see our passes. We then drove to Meirri Lookout, this was a steep hike up to the lookout, very loose rocks. I was very pleased with myself to do the climb and more importantly to get down again. We then checked out Sandy Billabong which was closed but we were very close to the Aligator River and this was not an inviting sight. Neither of us ventured to close as the banks were very low, yes more crocs. Crocs seem to be everywhere here in Kakadu. We continued down to Cooinda, only thing there is a caravan park. Yellow river was closed also.
Apologies for the late posting, try to keep on track. Love to you all.