In other words I didn't do much today except for catching up with my travel blog. I guess you could say it was a day of laziness. Or how the Dude from "The Big Lebowski" would call it, "a recreational day" ;)Oh, but I was not entirely unmotivated today. For two hours I was chasing an unknown spider through the kitchen, until I got her :)AND, I finally caught our little green Froggie on camera who spends the dry season residing inside the toilet bowl... :) Wel...

Went to check out the city of Darwin in the morning. After lunch I visited the "Crocosaurus Cove", a research and breeding place for Saltwater Crocodiles or 'Salties'. They are practically found all along the coast and even far inland swimming up the rivers of the Northern Territory, which Aussies also call the 'Top End'. I learned a lot about them at this center. And it was quite impressive to watch them getting fed. I even held a Baby Croc in my...

After the Kakadu NP weekend I wanted to relax a bit and decided to watch a couple of Aussie movies I usually don't have the opportunity to back in the US. Penny chose a few of the essential collection. Among them "The Man From Snowy River" and Peter Weir's "Gallipoli" and "Picnic At Hanging Rock". Nach unserem Kakadu NP Wochenende wollte ich ein wenig relaxen und entschied mich mir ein paar australische Filme anzuschauen, an die man zu Hause in Amerika ni...

As soon as the sun comes up the heat returns. Even though it's technically still Wintertime. So we got up early, took a 'pointless' shower and hit the road again. Our first stop was a bushwalk called Bardedjilidji. The landscape looked like a film set from "Indiana Jones" ;) The last part of the hike runs along the East Alligator River where you should walk with caution as the Crocodile sitting at the riverbank reminded us...After a short refueling st...

After "careful" consideration we decided to pack a tent, get enough food and water and hit the road to Kakadu NP. The park is about 3 hours to the east at the border to Arnhem Land. Passing 2 meter high cathedral termite mounds, floodplains, bushlands, rainforests and crocodile infested rivers we drove all the way to Ubirr, the northern part of the East Alligator region. It is a place of magnificent sandstone formations and rainforests. With aboriginal rock art ...