Kakadu - Woo Woo Woo
We set off at 6:30 in the morning, 8 of is in the back of a 4x4, and journeyed to the outback.
To sat it was hot was an understatement. Humid and sticky. 38 degrees. Phew.
Our first stop took us to a little creek where we swam in a pool that had a sign saying 'danger crocodiles'!! We trusted our guide and jumped in. Very refreshing. Apparently there was a waterfall above and below the pool so it was guaranteed there'd be no crocs. Anyhow the Kakadu park has to put these croc signs up by law.
In the afternoon we took a walk to another plunge pool which had a rocky wall that could not be climbed out of. The only exit was to dive down 1.5meters, through a hole and into another pool. Very cool!! There were also some high rocks to jump off which was fun.

We slept out two nights in swags. It was still 30 degrees at night which made sleeping very hard. When you look at the Lonely Planet Australia guide under the heading 'Dangers' there are several pages of animals which you could be bitten or stung by. Australia has the most venomous snake in the world and 19 of the top 23 most venomous snakes. They also have the most poisonous spider, toad and jellyfish! We were worried about finding these in our swag. The only one we were pretty sure about not finding was the Jellyfish!
Both mornings we had cereal and flys! Mmmm meaty!! It amused us to see the Germans that we were travelling with had fly nets. We resorted to wearing a towel over our head. Mmmm attractive!!

Doing any form of exercise other than swimming was very tiring. So on our second day we walked up a very steep rocky hill, climbed bolders and scaled rock faces! Not the most refreshing day but amazing none-the-less. On route we visited the Jim Jim and Twin falls, neither of which run during the dry season. They were both still pretty impressive.
Nat has two tops now with a permanant reminder of her rock scrambling experiences. The red soil just dosn't want to come out! Oh dear we are going to have to go shopping - what a shame!

Our guide was really enthusiastic about the aboriginal culture. We loved looking at the aboriginal rock art. The stories they told were thousands of years old, in fact some were as old as the pyramids. It was quite amazing to think that these would have been told to the ancient aboriginal kids.


We went crocodile spotting in a tin can (as they call it here) on the Cooinda Billabong. It was pretty scary as there were lots of crocs around poking their beedy eyes out of the water. Especially when we were told to get out of the boat and stand on the bank to look at the wildlife on the plains!!! Scarrrrryyyy!


We loved Kakadu. An awesome place, full of history, culture, creatures and scenery.

A Big Rock
We spent some chilled out (read crashed out) days in Alice Springs.
Whilst there we held a very heavy python, a skink and a large spinny gecko at the Reptile Center.
Ayers Rock excusions were looking expensive so we decided to do it in a day. We visited both the Kata Tjuta and Uluru Rocks (Ayers Rock) which were awesome and Jon climed Uluru which was a tough climb but well worth the views at the top. We finished our day with an scrumptious Aussie bbq watching a beautiful sunset over Uluru. We were the youngest people on our tour by about 25 years. Everyone was lovely and we had some great conversations.