An overcast morning meant for a cooler start, as we headed off to Kakadu. First stop was Corroborree Billabong, a wetlands area, teeming with wildlife and birds. I saw a dingo and a number of little wallabies bouncing around, as we drove away. The next stop was unfortunately still closed from the wet season, something we had heard from other travellers, that many sites were still closed. So Matt had lunch and then we headed down to the Merl campground near Ubirr and the Cahill Crossing, and had a quiet afternoon reading. I finally finished reading the autobiography by Bono from U2, called Surrender. A good read.
We headed out to the Ubirr rock art and went up the walk to the sunset viewing, that overlooks a currently very green wetlands and Savannah. Quite a few folk were enjoying the sunset up there too. The sunset wasn’t a great one due to lots of thick, low clouds, but beautiful nonetheless. We will try again tomorrow night. We headed back to the campground, it is another hot and steamy night. So hoping the bugs stop biting me. I must taste good, as despite all the repellant, I’m covered in bites, and Matt not so much. The cold water in our shower is so hot, you don’t need the hot water, and that says a lot coming from someone who loves a hot shower.
Spent most of the way today sharing the road with the road trains. Lots of ore trucks and fuel trucks using this road between Darwin and the National park not sure how many of you have encountered these massive vehicles but I am impressed with how well they track nowadays, as the original road trains third trailers used to take a course of their own and wag like a dog. They are running 4 trailers now up here on most of the trucks. The fuel tanker I photographed makes the clipper look like a mini.
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