Day 40: Darwin to Batchelor It was a little sad to leave our camp site this morning. We had become quite friendly with our neighbours across the way and they were disappointed to see us leave, we had also just met another family last night who are also travelling the country. Our highlight this morning though was when Ethan's tooth fell out. He had just mentioned to me that his tooth was really loose when he went to the amenities block to brush his teeth. ...

Day 39: Darwin Waking up in a park that is predominantly occupied by migration tourists as opposed to travelling tourists is a little different. For a start you are not woken at 5am by the keen traveller eager to get on the road before everyone else. Instead, I woke up early as planned but stayed in bed until nearly 7am before venturing out to put a load of washing on, in fear of disturbing our neighbours. We made an early start in our expedition to explore D...

Day 38: Jabiru to Darwin Today was not about rushing to get organised for the long drive ahead. For a change our drive was only expected to take between 2 to 3 hours. We got up early to take advantage of the coolness of the morning and proceeded to Nourlangie to see some indigenous rock art. Some of the art is believed to be fairly recent, being dated up to 1000 years old. We managed to catch one of the three talks that was being given by the ranger explaini...

Day 37: Kakadu National Park (2) It was a long day today but we didn't really do a lot. We once again got up for an early start and departed about 8am to make our way to Maguk for a 9.30am ranger guided walk. Our ranger guide told us some of the same things we were told yesterday, however we were in a different environment to yesterday so there were some differences. Maguk's environment is classified as Monsoonal rainforest. One plant species in particular i...

Day 36: Kakadu National Park Last night was the first time we have had a warm night sleeping in our caravan. Naturally I loved it, naturally Darren didn't. The overnight temperature was about 21 degrees with today getting to a glorious 33 degrees. Beautiful weather for a summer vacation, not so good for walking, so I was up at 6am putting washing on so we were ready to leave by 7am. Our activities for today were concentrated in the East Alligator River region...