Kakadu National Park

Pine Creek was an overnight stop on the way to Kakadu.

Hope you can read the history of the mine?

Looks nice but not too healthy

Pine Creek was a Gold Mining Township in it's day, 
so we took a trip out to see where the open cut mine was...it is now full of water and
looks like a beautiful lake, but they tell me there are still a lot of chemicals left in it when it was flooded by the Minning Company.



We are now in Kakadu National Park and staying at Cooinda Resort we are in the Caravan park but we are allowed to use the swimming pools (there are two) and very nice with lots of Palm Trees around.

Groc swimming beside the boat

Old Man Crog 5 metres long sunning himself on river bank

Booked a trip on the Yellow river wetlands cruise, most enjoyable, we were lucky that there was only 9 passengers so we were able to move around the boat when our Guide/driver pointed out where there was big and small Crocodiles lying sleeping in the sun on the banks of the river...we also had a 5 mtr one swimming along side the boat for quite awhile. Our guide is an aborigine and she told us her grandfather had hunted and killed crocs for food from this river
We also saw some lovely Birds including a Sea Eagle and other native birds to this area.

A Beautiful Sea Eagle

A little Kingfisher

Day 2

Visited a place called Nourlangie where we went for a walk and it took us up a very steep-rocky outcrop which looked like a pebble beach in places!!

The Stone Country in Cooinda

Looking for Crocodiles near the Billabomg

 

The view from the top was worth the effort, we looked  out over to the ranges and a huge Billabong down in the wetlands, now if we hadn't done the climb we would not have seen that beautiful view!!
If that wasn't enough on the road back to the caravan park we saw a sign for Mirral Lookout so we decided WHY NOT. It was 1 km in but turned out to be 1 km UP...yes another BIG HILL not only was it steep but the track (sorry goat track) was hard going, we did make it to the top to find we also had to climb stairs to get to the look-out platform to find the view was overgrown with Trees!!! and guess what! we had to scramble 1 km back down again! On return to Cooinda we enjoyed a cool off in the swimming pool.