The next stop was a road house called Bark Hut on the way into Kakadu. They had pet Emu's and Buffalo's and the kids got to feed them their breakfast. The we had a quick game of pool before we got back on the road.
The drive into Kakadu was quite boring and couldn't wait to get out of the car until we saw alot of fires on the sides of the road. It was back burning. There were eagles flying everywhere trying to catch any insects and bugs flying away from the fire.
We stayed at the Kakadu Lodge Caravan park and after we had set up, Mitch said "I really need a soft drink from a pub". So we headed to the pool and the pool bar for a drink.
The next morning we went for a walk to see some aboriginal art. It was really impressive and very clear. Robyn and Stan took the boys back to the caravan park so Michael and I could do a 6 klm walk that was advertised as being a cool place to spend the middle of the day and a nice waterhole at the end. It was bloody hot with not much shade and the waterhole at the end was like a dried up riverbed. Not impressed but it was good to do another walk.
It was back to the caravan park to relax in the pool except for the old Grey Nomads who think they can say what they want to you and told us that our kids couldn't read and were stupid for jumping in the pool. As you could imagine this didn't go down to well and a few heated words were exchanged. The sign only said no jumping from the rock waterfall. At this point we were keen to get out of caravan parks and get back to free camping.
That night we went to Ubir for the sunset. We climbed a really high rock face and watch the sunset over a massive flood plain. It was beatiful.
Then we drove across the Knotts Crossing into Arnhem Land but didn't see any crocs, it was pitch black by this time and the tide was coming in.
The next morning we drove to Gunlom Falls for the night. 37 klms of the drive was along a dirt road, it was abit rough but not too bad. On the way in we saw wild bulls and horses.
Gunlom Falls was beatiful, we did the walk to the top pool and the view was inbelievable you could see forever.
We met a nice young couple from Melbourne Travis and Carley and their two kids. That night we had a fire and sat up really late. Even though we had had a few drink Michael and I were sure that a star kept jumping around so for the next few hours we sat there and laughed and debated if the star was really moving. It definately was!!! The kids also spotted and dingo and a pack of wild horses in the campground.
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