The alarm woke us up at 5:30am this morning and we headed to the bus stop for a 6:25am start in the dark. They drove us down to the boat for a 6:45am cruise up the Yellow Waters River system.
The sun was coming up, the colours and wildlife were alive. We got to see a lot of Crocodiles, massive amount of bird life and even a water buffalo. The guide was fantastic, she knew everything you could possibly want to know about the wildlife, the area and the culture of the area.
The cruise finished at 8:45 am or so and it was one to never forget. We highly recommend it and we are so glad we did it, it was the Kakadu experience we were looking for. A little expensive at first thought but not after we did the cruise and got to see what we saw. We have paid more for cruises in Tassie and seen nothing, twice in fact.
We then had to pack up camp and get out of the caravan park before 10am because they change the code on the gate!!
We left camp and popped around the corner to the cultural experience and it was very interesting. We must have spent a good couple of hours in the place reading all about Aboriginal culture, looking at the displays and watching videos as well as the gift shop full of very expensive imported touristy stuff. They did have some nice locally made items but at very exorbitant prices of course.
We then drove all the way down to the bottom end of the park to camp at Kambolgie campground.
On the way we popped into Bukbukluk Lookout and did the little walk to the lookout. One thing that stood out was the benefit of all the burning off they do to the land around here, there is zero undergrowth and pretty much no chance of having a very hot wild fire.
Back on the road to the campground there were no signs so I missed the turn off and continued to drive 20 kays down the road before realising. So we backtracked and eventually found our destination after driving approx another 20 kays after the turn off down a corrugated dirt road.
The camp ground was quite with only a 2-3 other campers and at $12 a night very reasonably priced. The climate down here is absolutely perfect. It is warm but not so hot and humid, a very slight breeze and a lot less mozzies.
The camp ground slowly filled right up with an assortment of campers so we spent the day sitting outside enjoying watching people, watching the footy and karen did some cooking.
The evening was not too hot at all, it really was an idyllic location.