We had another early start and I later regretted having two cups of tea before we set off in the 4WD. We drove to the gates of Kakadu National Park and hopped out to take pics with the sign. The two hour journey to Ubirr wasn't too bad, mostly because I had promoted myself further forward in the bus so I could hear the music better. I now have a list of songs and bands to look up when I get home - Aussie hip hop is pretty good, in fact you should all check out Hilltop Hoodies but not the latest stuff the older albums are better I'm told.
Once we reached Ubirr art site Luke took us around to see all the most interesting paintings and told us all about the history and the best of the aboringinal stories. We ate another exciting small green fruit called a Billy Goat Plum. Next we climbed up to Nabad Lookout and got over-excited taking photos, not just because the scenery was spectacular. It is also where Crocodile Dundee stood in his film and swung his whippy thing around. Woop!
Next we headed to our campsite to make sandwiches for lunch. Tonight we're staying at Kakadu Lodge at Jabiru (these place names are not made up, I swear)and we discovered there is a bar and pool tables. Happy Campers!
We all hopped back in the van and headed to Gubara. Here we trekked along a sandy track and through humid rainforest to climb a rocky section and reach "The Castle". As you probably guessed already more amazing views. The braver members of the group climbed further to reach a crevice where Luke demonstrated how to climb up inside and get cool photos suspended inside the rocky gap. I was too chicken to get very high though.The photos aren't great as I was in a quite a hurry to get back down to safety.
After all our climbing exertion it seemed only right to find another rock pool to splash about in. This time we got to swim across the pool and cross more sand and rocks to reach another secret pool and waterfall.
We dried off and headed back to camp where we were fed well again with chicken and vegetable stir-fry with cous cous. It seemed rude not to have a few bottles of Great Northern too, considering I don't like beer it went down pretty well in a Corona-esque way.
After dinner we got a visit from from another tour guidewho told us tales of his snake taming Dad and the one time he got bitten and had no choice but to drive himself to the nearest town, scary stuff!
After an exciting day we were too tired to head to the bar and play pool. Sorry to the guys we promised we would definately come back and challenge.
