Day Nineteen - June 28

Anbangbang billabong

Our last day in Kakadu today. We packed up and went to Anbangbang billabong and gallery. Isaiah and Toby and I climbed up to Gun-warddehwardde lookout. Then we drove into Jabiru and checked out the lake.

Anbangbang billabong

Anbangbang gallery

Toby took this. Not sure how he achieved that effect.
 

We went to Cahill's Crossing about an hour and a half before high tide, to watch the river rise. It was one of the tips the couple we met at Coober Pedy gave us. As the tide comes in, it pushes the barramundi up stream, and the crocs come in to fish.


We watched a man catching decent size barramundi, and saw three crocs. 

 

Then we drove up to Ubirr, and saw some more aboriginal art, and climbed up to the lookout over Arnhem Land. The line in the land between the rocky, scrubby Kakadu and the lush green, flat Arnhem Land is very pretty and impressive.

Back to Lauren's place now for a couple of days before we start to make our way home.
On our way back to Lauren's, we drove through one patch of roadside burning off. It was a bit scary driving through the thick smoke. So many birds of prey circling, picking off the little lizards and things escaping the flames.

We saw a lot of little wallabies and padamelons on the verge too, nibbling at the new grasses that have come up since the burning off. Very cute. Too hard to take clear pictures at 100km/hr though.