Back out over the sandy track onto the main 4WD track which was mostly rideable if only two wheel ruts in some places for 10 km until the Reynolds River crossing.
Rangers Helga and Darius had made me promise not …
DAY 59 15 AUGUST CROCODILES, RAGING RANGERS AND SPRING FALLS
Getting a bit toe-y now as the end of the trip gets closer. Up and off across the tableland to the Tolmer Falls lookout. The falls and gorge are home to endangered bats so no entry but an interesting enough …
DAY 58 14 AUGUST LITCHFIELD NATIONAL PARK AND FLORENCE FALLS
Restocked at the town shop and the better provisioned service station we headed off to the Litchfield National Park. The joke in Batchelor is that Litchfield is a much better but less known park than Kakadu, which has so many …
DAY 57 13 AUGUST BATCHELOR
A short 15 kms or so over grey clay flood plains and then up a lovely rain-foresty track alongside a small stream and onto the Stuart Highway. Bitumen again!
A fast (for Brian, Christine and Chris O’B, slow for me) …
DAY 56 12 AUGUST MARRAKAI CROSSING AND THE CROCODILE WITHOUT A CLOCK
Almost immediately after leaving camp we passed the turnoff for the Jim Jim Road (my friend Paula remembers it well, she met her husband-to-be on a bus tour there).
Then it was passed the Paper Bark caravan park (closed) and …
DAY 55 11 AUGUST LEAVING KAKADU, MOUNT BUNDY AND GUNS
A relaxed start to the morning after being kept awake until late by the partying group tour in the segregated part of the campground next door, followed by being roused early in the morning (before 6 am) by said group …
DAY 54 10 AUGUST JABIRU MORE ABORIGINAL LORE
Back on the bikes and an easy ride up to the mining township of Jabiru. A good supermarket but the town is obviously looking for a reason to be since the uranium mine closed. A quiet night in the caravan …
DAY 53 9 AUGUST KAKADU COOINDA RESORT CROCODILE TOURS, ABORIGINAL HISTORY AND ICE CREAMS
The title sums it up.
Get up earlier than one would like on a rest day to be able to catch the 8 am boat tour. While queuing to board the flat-bottomed boat an unlucky punter dropped their mobile phone …
DAY 52 8 AUGUST MAJUK FALLS TO COOINDA KAKADU RESORT
Up before daylight to the sounds of Brian stoking the fire. I finally made a damper and cooked it in the ashes before we headed off to Cooinda Resort.
As always the ride back out along the rubbish dirt road …
DAY 51 7 AUGUST KAKADU MOLINE WATERHOLE TO MAJUK (BARRAMUNDI GORGE) FALLS
A casual enough start to the day but still beat the last of the party goers out of camp. Have sympathy for parents trying to round up teenage girls. Bounced back over the rocky road and straight up the Arnhem …