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We've now entered Kakadu National Park: one of the largest National Parks in the area. It's a really beautiful area, full of wetlands and is about the size of Israel. It is also an important area for Aboriginal people, and they have a big say in how it is run.
We spent one day walking through Ubirr and Nourlangie, where there was lots of rock art, painted by the Aborigines, making yellows, oranges, blacks and white from different kinds of rock. They used the walls to show their people what to hunt (barramundi, emu pictures etc.), but also to tell future generations how the world came to be. The Rainbow Serpent is the most sacred of Aboriginal spirits in this area, and created the landscape of Australia, and all the pants and animals on it. This was topped off by the first of several very beautiful sunsets (enough photos for the most avid sunset addict!)
The next day, we were up bright and early to get on a billabong cruise. We went around the wetlands, and down the South Alligator River (so named by the person to discover the area, who named it after the reptiles he saw there. Even though there isn't an alligator in the area, they still haven't renamed it the S Crocodile River!). We saw fresh and saltwater crocs, basking in the river, and making Steve Irwin proud! There were also more birds than a twitcher could deal with: kites, jabberoos, ducks, kingfishers and more, all in different colours, and most of them making a hell of a racket!
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