Left Darwin this morning and heading to Kakadu. We stopped in at Adelaide River to do a Jumping Croc cruise. We turned down a dirt road which felt like we were heading into the middle of nowhere – along the way Paul thought he saw a cow – turned out it was a water buffalo. He (the water buffalo) wasn’t being very co-operative for a photos so Paul rolled down his window and started making ridiculous noises to get his attention – it could have gone either way but thankfully he chose to look at us rather than charge us.
Once we got the tour launch site and bought tickets we still had 30 mins to wait so the people who run the tour bought out one of their snakes for all the kids to have wrapped around their necks. Not surprisingly my big three were the first in line but we couldn’t convince Sam to even touch it.
Once we were on the boat it was absolutely fantastic as you can see from the photos. Kids loved it and Paul, who had to sit downstairs with Sam said that one of the crocs that was swimming towards to boat was eyeing Sam off like he would be a tasty little morsel.
As we drove into Kakadu we stopped for a turtle to cross the road – as the road was the Arnhem Highway we thought we should probably set him in a better direction. The kids thought he was great but we couldn’t even convince Sam to get out of the car to look at him.
We arrived at Kakadu Lodge, our campground for the next three days, in the early afternoon and with the promise of a swim at the end we seemed to get a lot of help setting up. The mozzies up here are ferocious though and at the moment I look like some kind of leper with all the big welted bite marks on me – a small price to pay though to be somewhere so beautiful.
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