Day 61 Thursday 23rd August. Kakadu

Today was a bit of a slow start, we had to do some chores as we were almost out of clothes and Jason needed to purchase some hiking boots online. Once all of that was completed and we had a short swim we left for Nourlangie lookout and art works. This was a 1.5km walk and was extremely hot. We had one water bottle as we underestimated the heat. They can trace some of these paintings back as far as possibly 20,000 years ago, with some more recent ones as well. This is very hard to comprehend and as for the girls to understand it is harder. This is why the question was raised by Ava "Were the Aboriginals here before  God"  With plenty of people around that heard the question all looked towards Leanne for the answer! Which she did well and was complemented by one of the many tourists listening! After a short break viewing some of the art works in a cave and Lucy retreating to the car to get some more water we were off again  to the lookout and this was defiantly the hottest we had been on the trip, no breeze and just blistering heat. The view was awesome as per the other locations we had visited. We then visited the Warradjan Cultural Centre which was a great experience in itself. It was also Airconditioned!!!! After this we walked along the board walk at Yellow River which was great as well. They have a cruise along here which is apparently fantastic but for approx $350 we could not justify the expense for a 1.5 hr boat trip. One thing about Kakadu is while it is fantastic to see, if you rely on tours to take you around you will be out of pocket $1000s of dollars as no tours are cheap except for the jumping croc which was $80 for the family. To go into Jim Jim and Twin Falls for the family we would have been out of pocket approx $900. The trip yesterday cost us about $100! Once the walk through the board walk was completed at Yellow Water we then headed back to Cooinda for a well earnt swim. After a few cool drinks and a swim and bangers and mash for dinner we were headed back to Ubirr Rock for the sunset. This was recommended to us by a few people and was just fantastic in itself and worth the drive, with probably about 60 other people taking it in as well!

Nourlangie

 Yellow Water

Ubirr Rock Sunset