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Date: 19 Oct 2010 02:28:56
Title: Kakadu & Litchfield Parks
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Guy the kids and I packed up the hire car and took off inland for three days to tour the famous Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks.  We took a cruise down Yellow River and saw lots of crocs and beautiful birds including Jabiru, Eagles and even a Pukeko (for those in NZ).  The kids loved the air conditioned hotel with swimming pool (they called it Hotel California).  We saw some gigantic Magnetic Termite mounds.  Some as old as 50 yrs.  These termites are organised and dedicated to their work – that’s obvious.  They are able to build their mounds in a direction away from the sun to minimise heat within the nest on hot days and keep the heat in on cool days..facinating.  and these mounds are EVERYWHERE!!!  Crocs are also everywhere.  Whilst cruising down Yellow River, Guy took some beautiful pics of the crocs casually waiting for food to pass their way.  (as seen below in the pics).  We were also pretty impressed by the rock art at Ubir.  Some of the paintings defy the laws of physics and one wonders how they were actually painted at all – on the underside of overhanging rocks about two stories high.

 

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